On this week’s Corks & Conversation with Fiona Barton episode we had a splendid chat with this New York Times Bestselling author all the way from her home on the southern coast of England. Have a listen …
Fiona Barton’s latest novel, Local Gone Missing, is a dark & twisty thriller set in a fictional small town in coastal England. We loved talking about how she designed Ebbing and why she loves placing a mystery there. And how she tells the story from different narrators and uses different points of views. We can’t give much away but we know you will love diving into this story. Or should we say plunging in, since we found out that is the British way of saying pantser. As in, Christie is a plunger and Cathi is a plotter. Christie is not sure how she feels about that.
We also talked about her very successful years of journalism where she wrote every day but short, concise stories. After she left traditional journalism work, she lived abroad in Sri Lanka, secretly training journalists. During this time, she continued her writing habit and started writing novels. And she had to allow herself to invent after years of fact-based journalism.
We suggest you get a copy of Local Gone Missing here. (indie bookshop.org or Amazon.com) You can enjoy this book with a glass of Cotes de Provence Rosé, like we did.
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Fiona Barton was such a delight and had so much wisdom to impart about writing and life.
Episode Highlights
3:00 Taste of Summer
6:11 Things escalate quickly in a small town
11:52 Are you plunging or pansting?
17:29 It would be nice to speak cockapoo
24:14 A fascination with people
28:28 If you have something to say, it doesn’t matter how old you are
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