“It was very good timing the market for young female writers had just opened up in the wake of Bridget Jones. I’d just been made redundant so I had some free time and a bit of money in the bank so I wrote the three chapters.” They became Ralph’s Party, the best-selling debut novel of 1999. “I told a friend about my plan to write a novel and she made a bet with me that she would take me for dinner if I wrote three chapters of a book. “I’d always wanted to write a book,’ Lisa explains, ‘but in the mid ‘90s there weren’t really any young female writers, so I put it in my list of ‘Things To Do When I’m Older.” After taking creative writing evening classes, my interest in writing was reignited, but it wasn’t until I read Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity on holiday in 1996 that I really thought seriously about writing a novel myself when I was in my twenties.’Īs is the case with many writers, it was sitting down to actually starting writing which was the turning point for Lisa. With the recent publication of her tenth novel Before I Met You Hazel Gaynor caught up with Lisa, who shared some fascinating insights into a writing career which started when she was in her twenties. Lisa Jewell is the international, best-selling author of nine novels. National Emerging Writer Programme Overview.
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