Ask the Author: Roberta Grieve
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Roberta Grieve
My parents split and we did not hear from mum for datly 30 years. She did not gell her new husband sbout her family. The years between coucld make zn i terssting plot - Fictionakised of ourse.
Roberta Grieve
i never suffered from writers block until recently when i lost my husband and then my sister was very ill. I just could not get on with my current novel, although I did finish it and it is now published. I still find it hard and my current work in progress is progressing slowly. But when I get bogged down with the novel I do something different. I have just written an short story and that has got my writing muscle working again. I also go out walking and always take a notebook.
Roberta Grieve
Keep writing. Never give up.
Roberta Grieve
I had two inspirations for Farewell Innocence. the first was when my sister was researching family history and we discovered that my great grandfather had been a policeman in the early days of the Metropolitan police. My imagination got to work and I tried to imagine what life was like for him coming to London from a small Norfolk village. About the same time I visited the Foundling Hospital in London and heard some of the harrowing stories of babies left there. I had found my heroine, Ruby.
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