Erin Kelly

Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year

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Arts, Books, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Journalist and author Erin Kelly joins Simon and Matt for a chat about her new novel - a follow on from her debut novel, but also a stand alone! Erin discusses her characters, plotting and how Frasier helps her write scenes. They also chat about the email she received from Stephen King, praising her book, and why she has returned to these characters so many years later. About the book: In the sweltering summer of 1997, straight-laced, straight-A student Karen met Biba - a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. A few months later, two people were dead and another had been sent to prison. Having stood by Rex as he served his sentence, Karen is now married to him with a daughter, Alice, who runs a vintage clothing company in London. They're a normal family, as long as they don't talk about the past, never mention the name Biba, and ignore Alice's flashes of dark, dangerous fury. Karen has kept what really happened that summer of '97 hidden deep inside her. Alice is keeping secrets of her own. But when anonymous notes begin to arrive at Alice's shop, it seems the past is about to catch up with them all ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?
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0:10.0	But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.
0:14.0	I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,
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