Ali, thanks for joining me here at DizzyC's Little BB again.
To celebrate publication of Breakfast at Darcy's, you are having a different breakfast each morning for 30 days. How is that going? Any favourites?
It’s going extremely well and I’m really enjoying it. Breakfast for me usually involves something with as few calories as possible! But I’m finding that eating all these lovely breakfasts is not only much more interesting, but is filling me up so much I often don’t want to eat lunch! A favourite at the time of writing would be a delicious Eggs Benedict Royal – Two Poached Eggs on a Toasted Brioche with Smoked Salmon & Hollandaise Sauce from Patisserie Valerie. Absolutely delicious!
Tell us a little about your latest novel and where the idea came from.
Breakfast at Darcy’s is about a girl called Darcy who finds out at a funeral she’s the sole beneficiary of her Aunt’s wealthy estate. But the terms of her Aunt’s will state before Darcy can inherit any of her money she must go and live on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland for a whole year, and set up a new community of people to live there with her.
Being a city girl, Darcy doesn’t find the switch from high-heeled boots to wellington boots an easy one, or for that matter any of the other many changes that the island of Tara has in store for her…
The idea came to me when I was on a touring holiday of Ireland and my husband and myself were parked up one day over looking the island of Great Blasket in County Kerry. My fictional island of Tara is based very heavily on Great Blasket and it’s history.
Breakfast at Darcy's is set on a deserted island, Tara, off the coast of Ireland, would you like to live on a remote island?
Only if I had a very warm house to live in with the Internet, and had a helicopter to fly me over to civilisation whenever I needed a shopping fix and a decent Caramel Latte ;-)
Any new writing projects on your laptop you can share with us?
Yes! I’m very excited to be back with Scarlett again writing a sequel to From Notting Hill with Love…Actually due out in 2012! All I can tell you is Scarlett gets to go a bit further afield this time when she visits New York …
I look forward to reading about Scarlett again :)
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