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Lucy Dillon was born in Cumbria, worked for a while in publishing in London, and now lives in the Wye Valley with her husband and their Border terrier. She has written eight novels set in the fictional Midlands town of Longhampton, which looks a bit like Hereford, although the inhabitants tend to sound rather more Northern than that.

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Hi Ms Dillon, I absolutely love your writing and I honestly wish Longhampton was real! My question is, would you write anymore fiction involving a woman's relationship with her dog/s? I live with 6 spaniels, a setter and a cat and I love the relationship you make between a woman and her canine companions. Thank you from an aspiring canine fiction author, Zoe

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Wow! That's quite an animal family! I would love a big gang of dogs like that. One of my friends talks wistfully about having 'a fleet of sp…moreHello, Zoe

Wow! That's quite an animal family! I would love a big gang of dogs like that. One of my friends talks wistfully about having 'a fleet of spaniels' which I think is such a great description of such a silky, rippling wave of dogginess.

Most of my books are about a woman and her relationship with dogs - Gina, and her greyhound Buzz; Libby and her love/hate relationship with her mother-in-law's basset hound Lord Bob; and most recently, Eva and her two silent pug companions, Bumble and Bee. I love writing about the complex yet very simple relationships we have with our dogs, the way they know us so well, what they give us that human beings often find hard, and how rewarding it is to learn a form of communication without words. I do sometimes try not to put a dog in but... one always sneaks in somewhere.

And I wish Longhampton were real too. It's somewhere I go a lot in my head when the real world is just too grim. Who wouldn't want to live in a town where there's a successful independent bookshop, a park with a coffee stand by the entrance and gorgeous displays all year round, a reliable and attractive Irish builder who always seems to be able to fit in your job, and locals who are KIND to one another?! :)

Thank you for your question, and good luck with your own writing!(less)

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From where do you get inspiration as a writer? <3

Lucy Dillon I get my inspiration from:

The Whitehaven News
The Hereford Times
The 155 bus to Elephant and Castle
Twitter
The Basset Hound Club of Great Britain
my frien…moreI get my inspiration from:

The Whitehaven News
The Hereford Times
The 155 bus to Elephant and Castle
Twitter
The Basset Hound Club of Great Britain
my friends
my friends' friends
the path behind my house that goes through the orchard where I meet fellow dog walkers whose names I literally HAVE NEVER KNOWN and yet whose dogs I know from a distance of 250m
too many cafes to mention
my mum
my extraordinary agent, Lizzy Kremer
Coronation Street

... and sometimes, ideas just pop out of some weird cobwebby cupboard at the back of my head.

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“A town without a bookshop is a town without a soul.”
― Lucy Dillon, The Secret of Happy Ever After

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“All i care about is giving you the happy ever after you want. In our own messy, complicated way.”
― Lucy Dillon, The Secret of Happy Ever After

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“The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she scanned the shelves with greedy eyes. Libraries weren't quite the same, she'd found; something about the prosaic smell of other people's houses and fingers seeping off the pages diluted that sense of magical worlds, but untouched, unread, unexplored books were something else.”
― Lucy Dillon, The Secret of Happy Ever After

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