I was a shy teenager the first time I walked down the Champs-Élysées on a bustling Saturday night, wide-eyed and pony-tailed, when a young man grabbed me, kissed me, and then disappeared into the crowd.
Lizzie Lane was born and bred in Bristol where many of her family worked in the cigarette and cigar factories. This has inspired her new saga series for Boldwood The Tobacco Girls.
A stark white living room, a perfectly made bed, a picture perfect family – these are some of the images you might find on the account of a Cleanstagrammer, Instagram’s latest trending influencers.
‘The Other Woman’ was one of those novels that “wrote itself”; which isn’t to say I could plonk my feet on my desk and swig a large G&T while typing with one finger. If only!
Perhaps every writer dreams of seeing her or his work produced on film. I love to imagine who’d play the major roles in my novels if they were made into films.