Ask the Author: Anna Quinn
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Anna Quinn
Hi LaVonne, Thank you so much for reading THE NIGHT CHILD and also, for loving it. Yes, I'm working on another novel. I just finished a draft and hope to have it published within the next two years. I can't yet say what it's about, but I'm loving the characters and the plot!
Anna Quinn
Dear Cassandra, Thank you for reading The Night Child and for your kind words, also your interesting question. I set TNC in the nineties because I didn't want to have technology as character. It was so important for me to give Nora and Margaret a voice—they'd been silenced for so long, that I wanted to invite readers into the theater without any tech distractions. Setting TNC in the 90's allowed me to also place Maeve in a time (1963) when there was very little therapeutic support—abuse, any abuse just wasn’t talked about...and without support Maeve continued to believe that the child was at fault, the child must be doing something provocative to entice the father—which became another layer of betrayal for Nora to cope with. Hope this helps—Anna
Anna Quinn
Writing makes me feel alive. When I see or hear or experience something viscerally, I feel an intense urge to write about it, look more closely at it, turn it over and peer underneath it, maybe shake it, sometimes deconstruct it and create something new. Also, it’s a way to not be silenced, to break silences. To give voice to issues I care deeply about.
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