Sarah Le Marquand

Your third novel, The Nocturnals, number one on Amazon, book of the month pick, sitting in the top 10 in bookstores.

You have a full-time job.

We've just discussed family.

How did you find the time to write this book?

And after the break, Fran, on the moment she realized the handsome stranger she had coffee with in Paris, turned out to be one of the most famous men in the world.

In terms of that practical advice, do you think everyone does have a book in them?

What would your advice be to ask you earlier about some of the, you know, bloom at your own pace advice for people that are thinking, I'd love to write this project.

I just don't have time.

What's some of the practical hacks that you would offer?

I'm not going to give away the twist, obviously, for anyone that hasn't read The Nocturnals.

I will just say there's a twist.

Fran,

When do you get struck by a moment like that?

Thank God you picked it up then.

No spoilers required here that the novel is set in 1997.

There's huge nostalgia for the 90s at the moment.

I think the fact that this brilliantly written novel with this great twist has been so successful, it's also arrived at a perfect time with this fascination with the 90s, hasn't it?

You know what?

I also wanted to ask you, Fran, not to make you the spokesperson for Queensland, in addition to being Australia's longest running Sunday columnist and bestselling author and acclaimed features writer.

No, it was actually just about I think some of the moments that have happened.