What other books within your genre would you compare it to? Or readers of which books would enjoy yours? I finished it in the first six months of arriving in France unable to speak French – the best excuse in the world not to have a proper job and to finish a first novel.Ĩ. The actual writing part probably took about a year, but I wrote it in two bursts, the first half when I lived in London and on a whim travelled to Liguria to spend a week in a fishing village imagining and writing of lives other than my own. How long did it take you to write your book? In order to establish some credibility with my writing, I decided to write a blog before I send it out again, so here I am blogging away, sharing my passion for the written word.ħ.
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The synopsis and first three chapters have been read by 3 agents in London, with encouraging responses but declining representation and the full manuscript was requested by the fiction editor at Penguin NZ, who enjoyed it and suggested I seek representation in the UK. Is your book already published/represented? In return for low rent, he agrees to an unorthodox request from his spinster landlady Claudette, to help her find the sister she has not seen for 30 years since she and her husband immigrated to New Zealand.Īlfredo discovers more than a long-lost sister and the search soon becomes his own, to find Claudette’s niece Amber the journey leading him towards everything he has tried to avoid in order to learn the truth.Ħ. Authentic it must be.Īngry with his father after his mother’s death, young Italian chef Alfredo, abandons the fishing village he has lived in all his life and travels to England, eventually finding a job in the seaside town on the South Coast. I don’t know any current Italian actors, so I would suggest a young man of Mediterranean origin to play Alfredo and because this question is too hard, I’m going to adapt it and say I dream of music composed by Ennio Morricone and the film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore director of Cinema Paradiso and Ba’aria.
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If you had to pick actors to play your characters in a movie rendition, who would you choose? I hate labels, I hope this book crosses as many genres as possible, but if I had to guess I would say it is contemporary, cross cultural fiction.Ĥ. In what genre would you classify your book? After the class finished, I could not get that man out of my head.ģ. He was wearing black trousers and a black leather jacket, observed by two schoolgirls giggling on a bench. Paralysed, I had a vision of the back of a young man standing on a pier smoking a cigarette, gazing out to sea. It was the scariest part of the class, that compulsory, time limited plunge into the unknown with others furiously scribbling away. It started with a prompt in a creative writing class at the Groucho Club in Soho the tutor asked us to spend 5 minutes writing about a character. Where did the idea of your book come from? To participate, I should answer 10 questions about my novel and then tag 5 writer’s:Ģ. She tagged me in the ‘ Be Inspired’ blog hop hosted by ‘Page After Page’:Īll of our stories come from somewhere, whether it be a dream, another book, a life event…So, I thought why not give people the chance to talk about their inspirations as well as their stories?
Thank you to inspirational talent Kimberly Sullivan who lives in Rome and has written ‘In the Shadow of the Apennines’ set in the mountains of Abruzzo.