Deedaa
I would like to ask Mark Lawson if the characters were based on people he knows and does he think he is like any of them.
Galen
Do you actually know such stereotypical people? Or is it entirely fantasy?
mary37
Thank you for my copy, haven't finished it yet but am finding the main characters very boring and snobby. I would love to know if they were based on people you know.
inishowen
I finished my book last night and really enjoyed it. I couldn't have guessed the ending! With the heatwave we're enjoying I couldn't sleep much, so I'd pick up my book and start reading. I'd like to ask the author how he got such an insight to the rich people? Does he move in those circles?
glammanana
Does the author know any families such as the ones he is writing about and if he does are people really this materialistic ? I will certainly seek out other books written by Mark this is the first of his I have read,so sorry it is taking me a while to read but it is worthwhile.
grandma1949
My question would be "I am enjoying the different couples and their fascinating different personalities. Are any of them based on people you have encountered or are they simply "figments of your imagination"?
Helen2014
I would like to ask Mark Lawson is that how he interprets his characters, does he see them differently and are they as he planned them to be or did they evolve during the writing?
I think that most novelists’ characters are a combination of aspects of their own personality and life, observations of others and psychological speculation / invention. So I am aware of having distributed autobiographical elements - being extremely tall, Catholic, addicted to football video games, hypochondria and living in Middle England - among the characters. Other details - financial and sexual - are drawn from conversations with others. The third stream - which is behind a lot of fiction - is simply asking “what if?” you discovered you were bankrupt or your husband were addicted to porn. (Like Natasha, I am a keen reader of Zelda West-Meades’ and Bel Mooney’s advice columns, which I find very instructive.)