The Inspiration Behind A Summer To Remember By Victoria Connelly
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[/amazon_link]Today Victoria Connelly reveals the inspiration behind her latest book ‘A Summer To Remember’
There are lots of things that can inspire a novel and one of the starting place for A Summer to Remember was my love of summer. I just love novels set in summer! A perfect English summer, that is, with long warm days, clear blue skies and gardens overflowing with flowers – not the cold, wet, grey-sky summers we’re so used to where picnics, church fetes and cricket matches get rained off!
Several years ago when I was out walking in the fields around my home in Norfolk, I spotted a family heading along the footpath towards me. It was a family I used to babysit for. They didn’t recognise me and I was too tongue-tied to say hello but the young boys were now young men and, being a burgeoning writer, it made me think of an interesting ‘what if’ question. What if a babysitter returned to the family she used to sit for? And what if the boys – who were now young men – fell in love with her?
I carried this idea with me for a long time before it started to become a novel, slowly developing the main character of Nina, creating the idyllic setting of The Old Mill House during a long hot English summer, and thinking about the chaotic Milton family. Oh, and adding a naughty Labradoodle into the mix…
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