![]() ![]() ![]() Katie wanted to know what this was (so did I at this stage!). She was desperate to find something, said it was imperative, but when questioned, couldn’t be more specific. 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.Įvery time I wrote, Mary kept trying to run away (even if doors were locked ). A little triangle of a family came next - 17-year-old Katie and her younger brother, Chris, and their very controlling mother, Caroline. Most of it goes in the bin, but the strongest voices keep returning.Īn elderly woman called Mary, appeared very quickly and I liked her a lot - she had such a zest for life and she kept making me laugh. This is a bit like improvising in theatre – throwing words down and not planning anything in advance. I use free writing techniques when I start a new project. I had a few ideas, but they were abstract, theoretical, as if I knew the tone of the piece, but nothing else. I knew very little about the book when I started writing it. ![]() Where did you draw your inspiration to write Unbecoming ? What does the book mean to you? ![]()
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