This time last year, I was still busy scribbling my first draft of Sometimes I Lie. I couldn’t stop thinking about Amber and so in the end, her story just had to be written. The idea for this story literally came to me in a dream! I scribbled it all down at about 3 one morning (I do this quite often) and when I woke up the next day, it still seemed like a good idea (this happens less often). How did the character of Amber Reynolds come about? The books I remember the most from my teenage years are Animal Farm and The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel which had a huge effect on me both then and again now. As a teenager my tastes turned a little darker and I started reading novels by Stephen King. I loved Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and anything by Roald Dahl. I was a regular Matilda at my local library. There were so many! When I was a little girl, I used to sit in the back of my parents’ shop, reading stories as well as making up my own. Who were your literary influences as you were growing up? Sometimes I Lie is her debut thriller and is being published around the world in 2017. Alice is a Faber Academy graduate from the class of 2016. She spent 16 years at the BBC, where she worked as a reporter, news editor, arts and entertainment producer and news producer.
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