Can you tell us a little bit about your latest book ‘Playing Grace’?
Gladly. The Grace of the title is a very calm, organised person who likes her routines and works for a company that organises art tours in London. When a brash young American guy called Tate joins the company to give tours on more cutting-edge art, weird things start to happen – pictures get stolen from galleries and Grace’s life starts to unravel. As it does, the reason why Grace keeps herself so in control, start to emerge.
Where did the inspiration come from?
I’ve always been interested in people who re-invent themselves – pretend to be something they aren’t because they’re trying to hide from their past in some way. I was thinking about that and how you could probably get away with it unless you came up against someone who didn’t have that British sense of reserve and so wouldn’t back off. I liked the idea of avery stiff upper lip woman trying to keep an over enthusiastic American guy at arm’s length.
