I spent some of my childhood in France, but grew up mostly in London, in what used to be a poor, immigrant area with a long history of tolerance: orthodox synagogues and mosques have stood literally (and peacefully) next door to each other for decades. It’s now a fashionable area where you can find everything that’s organic or alternative… I love going back to visit.
I studied at a university in the north of England for a BA in all the arts subjects that interested me, and an MA in Creative Writing—but what I did most of was have a lot of fun. I’ve had a collection of jobs: bookshops, libraries, local councils… and now editing, which I love and is what I wanted to do all along, but it took me some time to get here.
What I’m trying to do with my novel, “Nights in Paris”, is to write a novel that’s exotic and erotic. I’m trying to bring a wonderful period of history vividly to life, and seduce readers to fall as swooningly in love with Anaïs and Colette as I am.
Sarah Line Letellier