Heather Rose

And when that thing happened, it really undid me.

I cried.

I thought, oh, I understand now the momentum for that character.

And I think that's extremely clever, that book.

Middlemarch, again, I must say, George Eliot, that's a superb evocation of family and rural life.

Elizabeth Strout, you know, almost all her books.

I've loved every single thing she's written.

Margaret Atwood, Surfacing.

The Robber Bride, that one's a very interesting one about women and friendship.

Yeah, I love writing about family.

And also it's a challenge, of course, to write about family because there are so many subtleties in families.

I love an unreliable narrator.

I think they're so much fun.

And of course, the thing for me is that they shock me as well.

So I don't know what's going to happen in my novels.

I'm a seat of the pants writer.

So I got Astrid arriving at the airport.

I saw the bridge actually in a cloudscape and light one day at the end of my

beach, I looked down the river and I saw this sort of strange light effect that made it look like there was a massive bridge down there.

And I thought, oh, wow, what would happen if there was a bridge?