This morning it's my pleasure to welcome Marcus Sedgwick to the blog for a Q&A about his latest book
A Love Like Blood which is published tomorrow.
I've chased him for over twenty years, and across countless miles, and though often I was running, there have been many times when I could do nothing but sit and wait. Now I am only desperate for it to be finished.
In 1944, just days after the liberation of Paris, Charles Jackson sees something horrific: a man, apparently drinking the blood of a murdered woman. Terrified, he does nothing, telling himself afterwards that worse things happen in wars.
Seven years later he returns to the city - and sees the same man dining in the company of a fascinating young woman. When they leave the restaurant, Charles decides to follow...
Can you tell us a little bit about your latest book A Love Like Blood?
Some early reviews have called it a vampire novel, but it is categorically not a vampire novel! It is, in a way, the opposite of such a thing, because while the supernatural can be scary, I maintain that if such things were to occur (by which I mean persons obsessed with blood) in real life, that would be scarier still. So it plays with notions of the vampire, but is firmly rooted in the real world. It's a thriller, with a somewhat old school feel to it.
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