![]() ![]() ![]() How did your family react to you telling your father’s story in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry? ![]() I was writing another book and I had to abandon that and start writing … Queenie. I got to the point where I just couldn’t not write it. I realised I found the prospect of reversing the camera on the Harold Fry story really quite exciting. I realised I needed to give Queenie a full life, a lived life, just as I wanted to acknowledge all the things my dad had done in his life before he became ill. But the more I said it, the more I felt I was short-changing my dad. The book was based on my own experience of my dad dying of cancer and I explained to people that what Queenie went though was exactly what I’d seen happen to him. It wasn’t what they were expecting – or what they wanted. ![]() Some were quite distressed about the way she looked at the end of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, when she was disfigured by cancer. It was people writing to me asking about Queenie, and talking about her at events. What made you return to Harold and Queenie in your latest book, having written your second novel, Perfect, about something completely different? ![]()
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