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Penny Vincenzi is one of the UK's best-loved and most popular authors. Since her first novel, Old Sins, was published in 1989, she has written fourteen bestselling novels, most recently The Best of Times and the number one bestseller An Absolute Scandal. Penny Vincenzi is one of the UK's best-loved and most popular authors. Since her first novel, Old Sins, was published in 1989, she has written fourteen bestselling novels, most recently The Best of Times and the number one bestseller An Absolute Scandal. |
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A Perfect Heritage by Penny Vincenzi (19 Jun 2014)
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Q&A with Penny VincenziWhat did you want to be when you were a child?.From the age of about nine I wanted to be a writer. Before that I wanted to be a ballerina, but it was clearly not to be, as (a) I was much too tall and (b) rather more importantly, didn’t have any talent to speak of. I wrote stories right through my childhood, some of them in a magazine--which I wrote, edited and was the sole contributor to--and by the time I was 19, I was working on Vogue, which was a fairly different ball game, and my contribution consisted mainly of making coffee for the editors and occasionally writing captions to photographs. How long does it take you to complete a book? Roughly a year from start to finish. That doesn’t include the time it spends rolling round in my head while I finish the one before. Or the editing, when it gets knocked into shape. But it does include research, which I do on the hoof, so to speak--finding out what I need to know when I need to know it. What one thing do you do better than anyone else you know? Nothing. Honestly. What’s your signature dish? A pasta concoction, every ingredient from a tin or a jar. It’s completely delicious and everybody loves it. I do or don’t confess to the content according to the cooking status of the eater. What do you never leave the house without? I always leave the house minus something completely essential, have to go back, have to sit down because otherwise it’s unlucky, get back in the car and then find I’ve left something else... What is your first memory? Very clear. I was going with my two boy cousins for my first day to a little school on a farm in deepest Somerset. We had to cross a field and, more difficult, a stream with stepping stones. They hared on ahead and I was trying to keep up with them, and one of my little red-button shoes got stuck in the stepping stones. I remember howling because they wouldn’t wait for me and my mother patiently easing my foot free. A few years ago I went back to find the place and there it still was: field, stream, stepping stones. No red-button shoes, though. Who is your favourite fictional heroine? Scarlett O’Hara. Who is your favourite fictional hero? Mr. Rochester. (What a pair. And wouldn’t she have got them all sorted out--Grace Poole included.) What are you reading right now? Two things: The Other Family by Joanna Trollope and In Tearing Haste, the letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Duchess of Devonshire. What is your worst habit? My daughters tell me it’s sniffing. I do it when I’m cross. What makes you happy? Writing. My family. The sea. Very rich, oaked, gluggy Chardonnay. A perfect day would contain large quantities of all those things. Do you ever get writer’s block? Touch wood, not the really bad sort, when you can’t write a word, never mind a sentence--the sort we’re all really scared of. Bad days, when the plot won’t work, the characters won’t do what they’re told and you just wish you’d never started the beastly thing--yes, of course, all the time. Only cure is to sit there and work through it--NOT go away and do something else in the hope it’ll get better. Because you know what? It won’t. If you had to be stuck on a desert island with a celebrity, who would it be? Jeremy Clarkson. Who are your heroes? My heroes are people who go for it and go on going for it, who don’t take no for an answer and don’t give up however old they might be. They are also perfectionists. And originals. And life-enhancers. So a few are Richard Branson, Jilly Cooper, Lady Thatcher, Boris Johnson, Anna Wintour and Zara Phillips. A mixed bag, but how I’d love to meet them all. Maybe not all in one room at once though. What’s your guiltiest pleasure? Eating sugar lumps. What do you do to relax? I talk. What is your motto? "Don’t let the day slip away." I am passionate about not wasting a single second. It drives my children crazy. What motivates you to keep writing? First, I’m completely unequipped to do anything else. Second, finding out what’s going to happen to my characters. And third, it’s just the best fun. Much better than shopping, lunching, or indeed anything I can think of, except being with my family.
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