Mar 23, 2020
Charlie Place and Laura Pearson (Missing Pieces; Nobody’s Wife; I Wanted You To Know) discuss the process of grieving for various members of a family, writing a book about cancer when you are working through the same, and changing stories almost entirely from their beginnings.
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The Motherload Book Club
Laura’s blog ‘Breast Cancer and Baby’
Laura’s article ‘When Pregnancy and
Cancer Collide’ for The Motherload
Laura’s article for The
Guardian
Question Index
00:33 Your first book was found in your
publisher's slush pile...
02:53 Were your books difficult to write?
03:54 Tell us about your bookclub
06:13 What was the inspiration for Missing
Pieces?
13:07 Tell us about Bea's role in the book
15:28 The chapters specify 'days after' - did you
ever consider altering it at the end, after the revelations had
come out?
17:21 The use of seasons
18:44 Is there anywhere people who are in a
similar situation can go?
20:13 Why Southampton?
26:30 Nobody's Wife - what came first, the
characters or the plot?
27:23 The start of the book: was it always the
plan to say that only three of the four people remained?
28:03 Character you like; character you
dislike?
33:41 Was there a lot of difference between the
first draft of I Wanted You To Know and the final book?
36:43 Was there a reason for Jess's mum to be as
she is?
38:34 What was your reason for writing something
so related to your own experiences?
41:37 Would you recommend that other writers write
about what scares them in life?
42:45 What did you want to leave the reader
thinking?
44:22 So your next book is going to be
happy...
Purchase Links
Missing Pieces:
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Amazon Canada
Waterstones
Barnes & Noble
Nobody's Wife:
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Amazon Canada
Barnes & Noble
I Wanted You to Know:
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Amazon Canada
Waterstones
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