Charlie and Rachel Abbott (Don't Look Away) discuss young carers and the guilt they can feel, trafficking in Cornwall - both fact and fiction - and having her series' policewoman staying in the background of the story rather than take the spotlight. (We talk about that a couple of times, I loved it!)
Please note that there are mentions of suicide in this episode.
And So It Begins
Stranger Child
Come A Little Closer
Sleep Tight
About the trafficking at Newlyn Harbour in late 2019
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Discussions
01:40 The inspiration for Nancy and Lola's story
03:15 Nancy's feeling of guilt as a young carer who failed to save her mother
06:23 The way Rachel really fleshes out the non-police characters in her thriller
11:05 How long Lola will be in prison
13:48 Research Rachel does in terms of the police
16:55 How important is policewomen Stephanie (the linking factor of the books) compared to Nancy (one of this book's victims)?
20:18 Stephanie is written in the third person and Nancy is in the first person...
22:20 Why set the book in Cornwall, and why create a fictional village in Cornwall
25:36 The trafficking in the book and real situations
29:34 How Rachel goes from one plot to many - the expansion
33:15 How Rachel uses technology in her books as opposed to finding tech makes things too easy
35:03 What's next for Stephanie King, book 4 in the series?
41:26 Was there anyone that Rachel's editing agent didn't like, or did really like?
43:26 Rachel's current work on her next Tom Douglas book
Photo credit: Andrew Crowley.
