Anne

Anne asked Gill Paul:

Hi Gill, a question from your birthplace, Glasgow. I absolutely loved the secret wife and could not put it down. How do you weave the historical component and the fictional part together. Do you take a historical event in the first instance and invent the fictional characters and story around that ?

Gill Paul Hi Anne, Every novel is different but the research always comes first and quite often the story emerges from that. I tend to plan novels in a long outline (it stretches to about a third of the length of the finished book) before I start writing. I stick to historical facts in the small details, but might change the bigger ones (as you'll know from The Secret Wife). Thank you so much for reading and do give my love to bonny Glasgow. Hope to be up there in the summer. X

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I'm looking for a printed biography to present to my book club! We select an author for everyone to read and then possibly a book or two and review everything we can at our monthly meeting! any suggestions?

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Tonia asked Gill Paul:

Hello, I have read "The Secret Wife" and "Another Woman's Husband" and thoroughly enjoyed them both. I have been one of many who are fascinated with the possibility that a daughter of Nicholas II might have escaped. I am looking forward to reading "The Lost Daughter" soon. Will you be writing about the other two Grand Duchesses? I am looking forward, also to reading the new release for 2020. Please keep writing!

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Victoria Frow asked Gill Paul:

Love your books! Just want to know how you come up with your ideas and how do you put them together so well?

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