Interview Angela Dyson Author of The Love Detective

Give a warm welcome to Angela Dyson, author of The Love Detective, A Clarry Pennnaligan Mystery!
Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cauldron. Take your choice of a bat wing Chocolate Chip or Pumpkin, or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Angela and her Love Detective!

Who is your favorite character of all of the books you’ve written and Why?
My heroine, Clarry Pennhaligan, in The Love Detective. She’s younger, feistier and gutsier than I and has a lot more fun. But she’s also complex and far from perfect and so I’ve developed a real fondness for her. I care about Clarry; her safety and her happiness. So much so, in fact, that I decided to create a series of Love Detective novels featuring her adventures.

If writing is your first passion, what is your second?
The theatre (in addition to novels, I write plays). My parents were both actors and my sister, Claire, has also entered the profession. I was brought up with Shakespeare and not just in the way you’d imagine – both Claire and I were taller than many of the other girls at school and so our mother, in an attempt to ensure that we developed a good posture, used to encourage us to walk around the house with copies of Othello, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream upon our heads (in hardback!) whilst reciting passages from the plays.  

What do you like to do when you are not writing?
Apart from going to the theatre, I’m very happy walking in the early morning across the hills. As I think about characters and plots, I drink in the delicious freshness of the air and the searing sweetness of the blackbird’s song as he welcomes in the new day. And I love to cook. There’s not much in life, I believe, that can’t be improved by sitting down at the table for dinner with friends and family and talking things out. Really talking. Sharing laughter and swapping stories but also not being afraid to open up and confide worries and concerns. A little food, a little wine…a lot of comfort.

You’ve got a time machine, a cloak of invisibility, and one hour. Where would you go, and what eavesdropping would you do?

VE DAY CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON, 8 MAY 1945 (EA 65885) Soldiers and girls dancing in a street near Berkeley Square. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205125106

A really interesting question. And a difficult one to answer because there are so many moments in history that I would like to have been witness to, but if I had to choose one, then it would be the 8th May 1945, V-E day. I would be in Central London celebrating the end of the Second World War. What a day it must have been.

Soldiers and civilians singing and dancing in the street (to Glen Miller’s In the Mood perhaps?), complete strangers embracing one another, all united in joy and relief that this terrible war, where so many had lost their lives, was finally over.  There’s another image I particularly like of two sailors and their sweethearts wading in the fountain at Trafalgar Square – I think this says it all.

A little about the The Love Detective!
“Pacy, funny and exciting. Cynical yet romantic at heart, Clarry is a girl that you can’t help but like – and root for….” – Independent Reviewer
“He’d thought himself the hunter, that I was easy prey but what he hadn’t bargained for, was contending with a woman who hadn’t eaten a square meal in twenty-four hours. I get mean when I’m hungry.”
Clarry Pennhaligan, low on ambition but high on energy, can’t seem to come up with a proper grown-up plan to kick-start her life. Planning really isn’t her thing. But then she happens upon her true vocation: Snooping.  Discovering other people’s secrets and getting paid for it. What could possibly go wrong? Well……as it turns out, just about everything and soon Clarry finds herself in real danger.
The Love Detective is the first in a series due for release in September 2018. The second book will follow in late spring 2019.
Author Angela Dyson Reads from The Love Detective
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About the Author:
Angela Dyson ditched her London life and downsized her home to move to the sticks in Surrey, to follow her dream to become a professional author. She loves to write but to pay the bills (Angela soon discovered that utility companies, bank managers and landlords aren’t known for their generosity and understanding natures,) she had to squeeze the writing in with working for a living. Some of the jobs to which she only gave half her attention have included working for a recording studio and a record label, running a building maintenance company where pretty much the only upside was getting to boss a lot of men about all day, doing a bit of plus size modelling (strictly clothes on) and, for one memorable summer, making a living reading palms on a Greek Island.

It was wonderful having you with us today.  Please feel free to stop by anytime. Good Luck with The Love Detective!

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