Sharing some book club questions for From a Paris Balcony, as requested by a reader today… Parisian courtesans during the Belle Epoque are generally accepted to have been some of the first women to have management of their own lives. The issue of courtesans also highlighted the dual attitudes toward women at the time, and… Read more
Why is is that we are drawn to stories about the Second World War? What is it about this tragic event that changed the course of the lives of a generation that makes us want to read about it? I would argue that reading novels give us the chance to get inside the head of… Read more
I have been asked by several readers for book club questions for The House By The Lake. What I’m interested in when researching and writing these novels is the idea of secret histories- stories of families and people who have largely been forgotten, whose histories may have been overlooked as not important enough to be… Read more
1. What would you do if you inherited an apartment in Paris just as Cat did? Would you go to great lengths to put things right? 2. Do you think people do look in the mirror each day and pretend to themselves that everything is fine, when it is not? Why would they do such… Read more