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Judy Graham

Goodreads Author

Website

https://judygraham.me/

Twitter

judygrahamwrite

Genre

Historical Fiction

Influences

Dickens, Angela Carter, Sally Wainwright, Tim Burton

Member Since

July 2019

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/judygraham

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I'm not so good talking about myself when my mind is full of more fascinating characters. That was why A LONDON APPRENTICE had to be written. All those men and women squatting in my head, demanding to be created through words. I've met them all. Really. Good and bad. And this is how:

I can trace my family back five hundred years to living and working on the wharves below St Paul's, before the great fire of 1666. London is in my bones. As a child, I met colourful and eccentric people amongst the blackened terraces of the East End: factory girls bantering with the costers of Chrisp St market, dockers who carried anonymous brown paper packages under their arms and soft shoe buskers ready to sand the pavements of the West End.

My father was a tal I'm not so good talking about myself when my mind is full of more fascinating characters. That was why A LONDON APPRENTICE had to be written. All those men and women squatting in my head, demanding to be created through words. I've met them all. Really. Good and bad. And this is how:

I can trace my family back five hundred years to living and working on the wharves below St Paul's, before the great fire of 1666. London is in my bones. As a child, I met colourful and eccentric people amongst the blackened terraces of the East End: factory girls bantering with the costers of Chrisp St market, dockers who carried anonymous brown paper packages under their arms and soft shoe buskers ready to sand the pavements of the West End.

My father was a tallyman in Poplar, and he taught me to treat everybody the same, always with respect, until they no longer deserved it. My family settled east along the river Thames, but I still worked in the city. From modelling in Mayfair salons to taking patterns to the schmutter houses in Bow, from dressing photographers sets in Battersea to interior design in Kensington, I've met the gamut of London citizens. I've drunk pints in pubs with theatre crews and sipped champagne in palaces with Royalty. I love them all.

I wanted to write a book, how an actor reads a script. The words and dialogue instantly creating pictures in the mind. The action and connection between characters accelerating the plot forward. I hope A LONDON APPRENTICE is an insight into this practice.

My genre is fast-moving historical fiction, which I hope is easy to read, about accessible characters who face predicaments that remain relevant today. Nothing really changes, only the time and setting.

My stories are wrapped up in technicolour locations and the dramatis personae are dynamic and memorable, in homage to my time as an actress in the West End.

When not writing, I paint and print whilst still living in the greatest city in the world. London.

Please join me on my Facebook page:
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Instagram:
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