In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters three and 11. Sophie Hannah Read Quote
I’ve got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new book than any other author. Sophie Hannah Read Quote
In West Yorkshire, I’d have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping. Sophie Hannah Read Quote
My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I’ve just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It’s a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it’s just me and a couple of other swimmers there. Sophie Hannah Read Quote
The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you’re doing it, there’s nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting out the children. My mind goes into free-float mode; some of the best ideas for plots come into my head while I’m ploughing up and down the pool. Sophie Hannah Read Quote
I love the house we’re in, but at the same time, I’m hooked on the romance of house-hunting. Sophie Hannah Read Quote
Some writers, I’m told, look for their characters’ surnames in telephone directories. I don’t – it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you’re bound to find them, of course, but I’ve always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow. Sophie Hannah Read Quote
No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it. Sophie Hannah Read Quote
When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn’t think to myself, ‘I’m going to model myself on Agatha Christie’ or ‘I am going to be a crime writer in the Christie tradition’. Sophie Hannah Read Quote
Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates. Sophie Hannah Read Quote
