Waiting Room
I've recorded an upcoming broadcast interview with the novelist Phil Rickman, who does a regular book discussion and review programme for BBC radio. He concentrated on The Waiting Room, which comes out in paperback in the UK early next year.
It was a real pleasure to be asked shrewd questions by someone who totally got what I was trying to do with the story, from the opening scene to the twist with which the novel concludes.
The waiting room of the title is an Edwardian construction and I tried to end the story in the way that H.G. Wells or Chesterton might have in the fiction written in that period.
From Conan Doyle to M.R. James, Phil name-checked pretty much all the writers who influenced the structure and style and even the dialogue of the novel. My story is original, but like most novelists, I'm naturally inspired by great storytelling.
Phil's observations were so spot-on I became intrigued to read some of his stuff, just to see if he writes as discerningly as he reads. I'm halfway though his novel The Bones of Avalon and thoroughly enjoying it
It was a real pleasure to be asked shrewd questions by someone who totally got what I was trying to do with the story, from the opening scene to the twist with which the novel concludes.
The waiting room of the title is an Edwardian construction and I tried to end the story in the way that H.G. Wells or Chesterton might have in the fiction written in that period.
From Conan Doyle to M.R. James, Phil name-checked pretty much all the writers who influenced the structure and style and even the dialogue of the novel. My story is original, but like most novelists, I'm naturally inspired by great storytelling.
Phil's observations were so spot-on I became intrigued to read some of his stuff, just to see if he writes as discerningly as he reads. I'm halfway though his novel The Bones of Avalon and thoroughly enjoying it
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