Ask the Author: Lea Taylor
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Lea Taylor
My travels in South America during the early 80's gave much food for thought. Once while travelling in Mexico I met a couple who wanted to explore but it meant travelling through a troubled area. Their holiday was to last 2 weeks and they were due to take the same return flight as me - they never showed. I've often wondered what happened to them.
Lea Taylor
Many things - it might be something I've overheard on a bus or in a cafe or perhaps a story I'm working on as a storyteller. It might even be something I've read in the news or heard on the radio. I'm a bit of a magpie when it comes to collecting interesting trinkets of information, then I like to try considering things from lots of different angles and figuring out how that may pan out.
Lea Taylor
I quite like the idea of travelling into Borges labyrinth worlds and just be an observer
Lea Taylor
Keep going. Write every day. Read, read, read and don't take yourself too seriously.
Lea Taylor
You can create any world you want to and live in it.
Lea Taylor
Where the Crawdads sing
Hamnet - M. O'farrell
Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan
Everyone died so I got a dog
The Psychopath - Mary Turner Thomson
Beside the Annexe - Mary Craig
The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri
Hamnet - M. O'farrell
Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan
Everyone died so I got a dog
The Psychopath - Mary Turner Thomson
Beside the Annexe - Mary Craig
The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri
Lea Taylor
Put the pen down, take the dogs for a walk. Do something completely different and come back to it when you feel fresh. Alternatively, take one of the characters for a walk on the page. Don't think about the story, just let the character do the talking.
Lea Taylor
The house beside the cherry tree. Set in 1960's, it follows a family in crisis following the mother's catastrophic nervous breakdown. A statement of society at the time, stigma, shame, social norms and expectations - all working to compound the situation while family members find their own ways of coping
Lea Taylor
The inspiration for the book was sparked by the mention of mental health stats rising during covid and also reflecting on aspects of my own childhood. My Mother had a nervous breakdown when I was a child. The illness dominated her emotional landscape and that of the family for the rest of her days.
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