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Today we are going to hear from Freya North – author of Pillow Talk. For those of you that follow this blog, you will realize that I’m constantly fascinated by where authors come up with their ideas. Let’s take Freya for example-she’s written 10 novels! My question to her was where does she continue to come up with new and fresh ideas?
Her answer was quite interesting! She says:
I never search for topics or themes to write about – they tend to come and find me, usually from the unlikeliest sources. My 4th novel, Cat, enabled me to indulge my passion for cycle racing – and for two summers, I followed the Tour de France as a member of the press team. I love bridges – both as physical structures as well as the notion of crossing from one place to another – the concept of ‘building bridges’, so the hero in my 10th novel, Secrets, became a bridge builder. My new novel in the UK, Chances, is about a tree surgeon – because I love trees. And what’s not to love about a chap with an outdoorsy job and a great pair of forearms! Currently, I am writing my 12th novel Rumours – set in a small village in the county in which I live. It centres around the sale of a wonderful mansion – and how this affects so many people in the village. So I’ve been nosing around some magnificent country houses all in the name of research. On the whole, though, my work is driven by the characters themselves. I believe you can have the most intimate plot – but if the characters aren’t fleshed out, then the reader won’t really care what happens!
By day, Petra Flint is a talented jeweler working in a lively London studio. By night, she’s a sleepwalker troubled by a past she can’t put to bed and a present that leaves her clinging to an unsuitable boyfriend. Arlo Savidge was once a budding heartthrob musician. Then tragedy struck and he chose to forsake stardom and all future affairs of the heart for a quiet life in the countryside as a music teacher.
Petra and Arlo haven’t seen each other since they were teenagers-when their feelings ran deep but the timing wasn’t right. Now, seventeen years later, they run into each other once more. Might first love get a second chance-or will what keeps them up at night keep them apart forever?
Pillow Talk is actually a re-release. It was originally released in 2008 where it straight into the top ten and won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Freya North gave up a Ph.D to write her first novel in 1991. She has written ten novels, all of which have been bestsellers. In 2008 she won the RNA Award for Romantic Novel of the Year for Pillow Talk. She lives in London with her family. Visit www.freyanorth.com
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