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Mo Foster Interviewed by Waterstones

What was your favourite childhood book?
At the Back of the North Wind by George Macdonald. The entire Enid Blyton canon! 

Which book has made you laugh?
The Sopranos by Alan Warner/ Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Which book has made you cry?
Germinal by Emile Zola

Which book would you never have on your bookshelf?
The Da Vinci Code

Which book are you reading at the moment?
The Thalidomide Kid by Kate Rigby,
The Runt by Niall Griffiths

Which book would you give to a friend as a present?
The grass is singing by Doris Lessing

Which other writers do you admire?    
Jean Genet, E Annie Prioux, W. Somerset Maugham, Graham Green, William Burroughs, Guy de Maupassant, Christopher Isherwood.

Which classic have you always meant to read and never got round to it?
Remembrance of things Past by Marcel Proust

What are your top five books of all time, in order or otherwise?
Germinal by Emile Zola, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Brighton Rock by Graham Green.

What is the worst book you have ever read?
Something by Barbara Cartland I read it for a bet.

Is there a particular book or author that inspired you to be a writer?
City of Spades by Colin McInnes

What is your favourite time of day to write?
Very early morning

And favourite place?
My study.

Longhand or word processor?
Word processor

Which fictional character would you most like to have met? 
EMMA BOVARY from Flaubert’s Mme Bovary or Nana.

Who, in your opinion, is the greatest writer of all time?
Emile Zola/ John Steinbeck

Which book have you found yourself unable to finish? 
Ulysses

What is your favourite word?
Idiosyncratic , uniqueness, melancholy

Other than writing, what other jobs or professions have you undertaken or considered?
 ‘Teaching’ creative writing, interminably.

What was the first piece you ever had in print?
An article in the Guardian about a pile of rubbish outside my house left by errant builders.

What are you working on at the moment?
My third novel, working title ‘Love story with added extras’  and a play called ‘Two Birds and a Poof.’

 



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