Interview Angela Dyson Author of The Love Detective
Who is your favorite character of all of the books you’ve written and Why?
My heroine, Clarry Pennhaligan, in The Love Detective. She’s younger, feistier and gutsier than I and has a lot more fun. But she’s also complex and far from perfect and so I’ve developed a real fondness for her. I care about Clarry; her safety and her happiness. So much so, in fact, that I decided to create a series of Love Detective novels featuring her adventures.
If writing is your first passion, what is your second?
The theatre (in addition to novels, I write plays). My parents were both actors and my sister, Claire, has also entered the profession. I was brought up with Shakespeare and not just in the way you’d imagine – both Claire and I were taller than many of the other girls at school and so our mother, in an attempt to ensure that we developed a good posture, used to encourage us to walk around the house with copies of Othello, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream upon our heads (in hardback!) whilst reciting passages from the plays.
What do you like to do when you are not writing?
Apart from going to the theatre, I’m very happy walking in the early morning across the hills. As I think about characters and plots, I drink in the delicious freshness of the air and the searing sweetness of the blackbird’s song as he welcomes in the new day. And I love to cook. There’s not much in life, I believe, that can’t be improved by sitting down at the table for dinner with friends and family and talking things out. Really talking. Sharing laughter and swapping stories but also not being afraid to open up and confide worries and concerns. A little food, a little wine…a lot of comfort.
You’ve got a time machine, a cloak of invisibility, and one hour. Where would you go, and what eavesdropping would you do?
VE DAY CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON, 8 MAY 1945 (EA 65885) Soldiers and girls dancing in a street near Berkeley Square. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205125106
A really interesting question. And a difficult one to answer because there are so many moments in history that I would like to have been witness to, but if I had to choose one, then it would be the 8th May 1945, V-E day. I would be in Central London celebrating the end of the Second World War. What a day it must have been.
Soldiers and civilians singing and dancing in the street (to Glen Miller’s In the Mood perhaps?), complete strangers embracing one another, all united in joy and relief that this terrible war, where so many had lost their lives, was finally over. There’s another image I particularly like of two sailors and their sweethearts wading in the fountain at Trafalgar Square – I think this says it all.
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