Mark Haysom, author of Love, Love Me Do, has written an article in the Irish Times about his love of reading and the inspiration behind his debut novel. “Yet somehow…

…in that dusty corner, the dream survived intact and, a few years ago, I tentatively tried my hand at writing again. Then, one restless night, there was a story of a single day that sparked in my mind.”

“Later, in subsequent nights of little sleep, five characters emerged, and they had voices that I couldn’t ignore. So I sat down and began to write the book that eventually was to become Love, Love Me Do.”

“And it started – as these things so often do – with a memory of childhood. One day, in the summer of 1961, when I was seven years old, my family fled our home. There was no warning given, no explanation offered; there was certainly no discussion. We just drove away.”

Read the full article here.

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