Ask the Author: Fiona Stocker
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Fiona Stocker
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I've just started re-reading it and it is unbelievably good. We're straight into the story, and the scene-setting and character building is so strong.
And something historical by Philippa Gregory. I've learned more about the history of England reading her books and Ken Follett than I did at school. This is my escapism.
And something historical by Philippa Gregory. I've learned more about the history of England reading her books and Ken Follett than I did at school. This is my escapism.
Fiona Stocker
I'd go to New York and have dinner with Claire and Henry from The Time Traveller's Wife. I think we'd invite Audrey Niffenegger as well.
Fiona Stocker
Try to write every day, especially if you have a work in progress. Think about the time of day you feel most productive, and imagine yourself writing for fifteen minutes every day at that time. I'm a morning person, and I quite often sit up in bed before everyone else is awake, with my laptop on a breakfast table, and write.
Fiona Stocker
I'm doing what I love, and what I'm best at. It makes me very happy! And it's satisfying when you've written something you're proud of, and which you'd like other people to read.
Fiona Stocker
I've never had it! There are ideas everywhere you look. If I'm struggling with a piece and getting tied in knots over it, I take a break - walk the dog, do something else for a while, let my mind have a rest from it.
Fiona Stocker
I'm about to self-publish a short story, Sissinghurst Day, about surviving loss and lockdown in the world's most famous garden.
Fiona Stocker
I read about Sissinghurst Castle Garden years ago in the Sunday Times. The description of the garden, formal closer to the houses and then looser and freer in design the closer it gets to the woods, stayed with me. Like many people, I watched the TV serialisation of Portrait of a Marriage, the story of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson's extraordinary lives, and have remained intrigued by them over the years. I always knew I would visit, or read more about them, or perhaps write something, and finally, decades later, it happened.
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