An article with Josie Henley-Einion has been printed in the Western Mail this week. Below is a taster...
Josie Henley-Einion drew on aspects of her own colourful background to ensure the characters in her new novel Silence were believable – a decision she’s come to regret.
"I’ve been writing since I was a child but I began with a bad attitude towards fiction. I refused to read books because I thought they were babyish.
Instead I learned to read from the newspapers. I remember at age three fighting for the paper with my mother. It’s not surprising that my novel Silence is written as if it were non-fiction and dotted with newspaper clippings.
In school I was forced to read fiction and found I enjoyed it after all, but always thought that I could do better. I started to write my first book when I was eight years old.
I soon realised that I couldn’t do better! My main problem was finishing a plot line as I would always go off on a tangent. Although I managed to produce short stories, I didn’t finish my first novel until I was 30."
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Lucy
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