Tonight's Countdown to Christmas feature is a festive fun Q&A with author Elle Field.
What’s your earliest or favourite Christmas memory?
One of my earliest Christmas memories involves my parents, my brother and I going away to the coast for Christmas - I can only have been three or four years old. I was terrified that Father Christmas wouldn't know that we weren't at home that Christmas and I'd wake up to find no presents under the tree... not that we had a tree in the hotel room! Thankfully, he must have got the memo we were away and found the right chimney for me because I, thankfully, had gifts galore to unwrap that Christmas morning!
What are you looking forward to most this Christmas?
Having the time to relax and recharge with great company, great food, and a great book (or two) to read.
Today in my debut spotlight feature I'm pleased to introduce you to indie author Elle Field who has just published her first novel Kept.
'Did she really just say that? I am fifteen again, except the reality is I am experiencing full parental horror, aged twenty-five. I want to die.'
Life
hasn't quite worked out how Arielle Lockley imagined it would. Becoming
the next Coco Chanel was always her childhood dream, but she's spent
the past four years living a dizzying whirl of glitzy parties, luxurious
holidays and daily shopping sprees - all paid for by boyfriend Piers -
and not doing anything to make her Coco dreams happen.
When the
recession hits, its not just the economy that takes a tumble and Arielle
finds herself living back with her parents, on bad terms with Piers,
and having a CV that's as welcome as a pair of knock-off Jimmy Choos.
And maybe it's the location, but she's also finding unwelcome thoughts
of her childhood sweetheart are popping into her head...
