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eBook Commentary
August 15th 2012
Author Spotlight – Susannah Carlton
Susannah is the author of a family saga that dates back to the second world war. A man, who is both a husband and a father, working in a hospital in Egypt during the war falls in love and has an affair with a beautiful nurse. The repercussions from the affair were to ripple through both his and his lover’s families for years to come. Complex family relationships are examined from every quarter as daughters, wives, mistresses and friends discover the truth of what happened and the affect it had on their lives in this book titled Lonely Mirrors
Now you can find out what inspired Susannah to write the book and what it takes to produce your first ever novel
Q) What was it that inspired you to write your book and how did you select the story line?
A) I’ve wanted to try and write a novel for some time just to see if I could do it. Get to the end that is. That was the first and major hurdle, not whether it was any good or not. I’ve always had a lot of respect for anyone completing a novel – and now I’ve got even more. I’ve written a number of plays in the past and had them performed on the stage and on television and radio but I found writing fiction more difficult. For a start you have to write, at least most of the time, in proper sentences and I found describing things very tricky. Too many adjectives? Not enough? In a play you can put it all into the stage directions and let someone else do the work. But I did enjoy writing what was going on inside someone’s head. And I wanted to write about the unreliability of memory so I thought I’d try with several stories that would inter-connect and go backwards and forwards in time. The starting off point was the death of my father who died when I was a child. There are some true biographical details in the novel. He was on the last boat to leave Crete, he did then go to Egypt and later back to London. But that was all. I don’t really remember him so I made him up and now this character is the basis of my memories of him in a way like Albert Einstein becomes Margaret’s father.
Q) How long did it take you to write the book and did you have a schedule for how much you worked on it each day?
A) It took me just two years but I had to take time off when ‘life’ got in the way. I try and write a bit each day but if I can’t I try and do a bit of thinking about the book and let things slurp about in my head.
Q) Have you got any plans for a follow up book and if so when do you expect to have it finished?
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