The Book Lovers is your new release and it
is the first in a new series after The
Rose Girls and Austen Addicts.
What will be the trait d’union among
the books in this upcoming series?
The Book Lovers series revolves around
the Nightingale family and their family-run bookshops in the small Suffolk
market town of Castle Clare. Each book will focus on a member of the
Nightingale family and how they find their true love, but there will also be a
cast of regular characters made up of friends, cousins and neighbours.. It's
proving a lot of fun to write!
The
Book Lovers
features a classic love triangle. Your heroine,
Callie, has two very different men vying for her attention in a complicated
moment of her life. Have you got any idea why this pattern is so popular in
fiction?
I think readers love to put themselves
in the place of the heroine and think, 'Who would I choose?' I know I do!
Thomas Hardy is very good at love triangles. In Far From the Madding Crowd,
there are no less than THREE heroes for the heroine to choose from and, of
course, she gets it wrong over and over again. I think we're all fascinated by
that sort of romantic journey.
What
inspires your romantic characters? Is it more fiction or real
life?
I am very lucky to have a wonderful
husband and he's inspired many moments in my fiction, but there's a lot of
imagination in the books too! I think we all like to dream even when we've
found our own happy ever after. The process of falling in love is a magical
one, and it's one I never tire of writing about.