Can you tell us a little bit about your latest book The Other Child? The Other Child is about the effects of a catastrophic marital secret. Photographer Tess falls in love with Greg, a paediatric heart surgeon, and almost immediately, she gets pregnant and Greg is offered his dream job back in Boston, USA, his hometown. They relocate, along with Tess’s nine year old son, Joe, but Tess finds that life in a wealthy Boston suburb isn’t straightforward: creepy things start happening in their large rented house; Tess thinks she’s being watched, the neighbours are behaving oddly, Joe is deeply homesick, and the pregnancy feels fragile. Then, among Greg’s things, Tess finds something that threatens to destroy everything she loves.
Things progress fast between Tess and Greg, how would you describe their relationship?
Tess and Greg really are deeply in love. They’ve recognized something in each other and deep down, they just ‘fit’ together - that’s at the core of everything that happens to them. But the question is: is love enough?
Both of your books so far have been set overseas, British Columbia and Boston, have you any plans to write a book set in the UK?
Yes, I think so. The book I am just starting to imagine would be set mostly in the UK (though there might be an element of the USA in there – I’ve lived in the States three times now, and it’s in my heart, I can’t leave it alone)
