This would be a story exploring the societal, familial and self-imposed limits placed on girls and young women. I put them in a new town where they knew no one and gave them all a few problems to deal with and then I threw Mary in as the long lost grandmother who needed somewhere to stay because she had Alzheimer’s and could no longer cope alone and suddenly, the story began to buzz. A little triangle of a family came next: 17-year-old Katie and her younger brother, Chris, and their very controlling mother, Caroline. I liked her a lot – she had great zest for life and kept making me laugh. Most of it goes in the bin, but I find I return again and again to the things that preoccupy me.Īn elderly woman called Mary appeared very quickly as I began this third book. I write thousands of words, approaching the work from many angles. I start with themes or relationships, sometimes a voice or a triggering event.
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