This partly stemmed from a love of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and the musical adaptation My Fair Lady. I wanted to find out more about the women and children who led such a pitiful existence and yet were surrounded, each day, by the beauty of the flowers they sold and the elegance of the ladies and gentlemen who bought their flowers. With my second novel, I was inspired by a fascination with the lives of London’s flower sellers. For The Girl Who Came Home I knew that I wanted to write about Titanic and when I read about the group of Third Class Irish emigrants from Ireland who sailed together, I knew immediately that I had found the inspiration for my book. Location, character, structure – where does the inspiration come from and what do writers do with that first, precious seed of an idea? How does it become a fully formed novel?įor me, inspiration has come from a number of different sources. How do authors keep coming up with fresh, original ideas which make an intriguing premise for a book.
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