Dugald Bruce Lockhart

But I was born in Fiji, brought up in Cyprus.

My parents were in the foreign office and we spent a lot of time out there on holiday.

And then subsequently, I've always traveled to Greece.

In fact, I went back to Paris about three times, I think.

And I've always had a love affair with Greece, the Greek food, the culture, the wildlife.

I was big into collecting all sorts of creepy crawlies when I was younger.

And this trip, which was sort of quite life changing in terms of my growing up, I always

30 years to write it.

But I always thought that there was something there that needed to be told.

And I couldn't really put my finger on it until about, I started writing the novel in about 2006, but in the third person, the guy called Adam.

And it stopped.

It was a sort of autobiographical journalistic writing.

And I met somebody at a barbecue and said, no, no, if you want to sell your book, you've got to stick a murder in it.

And I was like, well, I didn't murder anybody.

He said, so make it up.

I thought, yes, good point.

Make it up.

But actually, the reason I was set in 88 and then Greece, in Paros, partly because I had such a wonderful memory of Paris.

I can still probably draw the map, most of the towns and even some of the roads.

It affected me that much.