![]() ![]() ![]() I was waiting for edits on another book to come back, and had promised myself a rest from writing. I started writing the book almost by mistake. ![]() I wondered for a long time if she was a Saturday girl, and if her story was YA, but when I started writing it was obviously an adult book and I settled on her being about twenty. In fact, she’s lived in my head for several years. The main characters in The Cost of Living are Bea, who works on the checkouts at Costsave, a mid-range supermarket, and Ant, the seemingly gormless new trainee. In this case the change was led by my characters and their story. Who knows? I’ve surprised myself with all my books, and The Cost of Living is another surprise, but a completely different one. My mum hasn’t hidden her bemusement (and dismay) at me producing dark, scary tales for teenagers. Over the years, I’ve found that I don’t really choose what to write – my stories choose me. I’ve been writing YA thrillers for eleven years (published for eight) and so it feels a bit like changing horses in mid-stream. It’s a warm, contemporary tale of supermarkets, date nights and charity spinathons, wrapping around the darker thread of young women being attacked in a small market town. My first novel for adults, The Cost of Living, will be published by Sandstone Press in September. ![]()
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