Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Under “A Different Sun” – with Elaine Neil Orr
US Author and Professor of English at NC State University, Elaine Neil Orr [ENO] answers WWWB’s Anora McGaha’s [WW] questions about A Different Sun her first novel telling the story of a US slave owner’s daughter who marries a missionary and moves to Africa, where her worldview is turned upside down. – Anora McGaha, Editor […]
Recipes of World War One
When I began researching for my new novel, ‘We That Are Left’, I knew that it was going to be set in WW1 and that it was going to be focussed on the experiences of women. I love the war poets like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sasson and I have family in France, so I […]
Unforgettable Picture Books
There is a book which has stayed with me for years, a book whose text is written lightly across my heart in inky words the same colour as my memory. A book I’ve never read, but listened to again and again in a voice almost as familiar as my own: my mums. And now those […]
Interview with Isabel Allende
We were delighted when Isabel Allende agreed to an email interview with Women Writers, Women Books. We asked you to come up with some questions. Here is the result! You seem to be fond of, or at least feel sympathy for your characters, even Esteban Garcia in ‘House of the Spirits’, who you describe as […]
A day in the life of… Joanne Harris
Ever since I left teaching in 1999, I’ve been waiting for a typical day to come along, so that I could describe it to all the people who kept asking. Some time ago, I realized that typical wasn’t really a word that fitted my life all that easily. When I was a teacher, I had […]
But Who will Want to Read it?
An esteemed British writer, one whose novels have been published for half a century, advised me recently not to read my own book reviews – unless they’re written by someone whose opinion you respect. Good reviews will make you vain, they told me, and the bad ones will crush you. Since then, I’ve tried to […]
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