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Kate, thank you so much for such lovely review!
Helena
My pleasure!
Helena, I’m curious: what made you decide on writing a novel rather than a memoir? And did fictionalizing your story shed any new light on what happened in your own life? (Since memoirs are so popular these days, I keep wondering what would happen if some of the people writing them tried fiction instead…)
I would love to know how much of this is memoir and how much spills into fiction! If it’s all memoir, then lucky Helena – a true life love story.
I tried to write a memoir, but couldn’t! I am a novelist and just keep making stories up. Much of this story, is, however, true but I didn’t think I could call it a memoir as some things were pure fiction.
What’s true and what’s not, well, that would be telling!
Helena xx