Ask the Author: Louisa Treger
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Louisa Treger
Hi Catherine, sometimes I change facts to fit the narrative for the fictional retelling. It is fiction after all, and there's a note to the reader at the front of the book explaining that I have done this, especially with the chronologies.
Nellie father isn't any man - he is her father. She wasn't seeking the approval of a man for inspiration. She was looking up to a parent. Also, her mother didn't encourage her to do these worldly things. But her mother inspired her to be a storyteller so the reader can be told that Nellie's passion to write was inspired by both her parents.
Nellie father isn't any man - he is her father. She wasn't seeking the approval of a man for inspiration. She was looking up to a parent. Also, her mother didn't encourage her to do these worldly things. But her mother inspired her to be a storyteller so the reader can be told that Nellie's passion to write was inspired by both her parents.
Louisa Treger
The lure of creating an imaginary world, which one can step into and order as one wishes, is completely addictive.
Louisa Treger
My most recent book is a biographical novel about the writer, Dorothy Richardson. I discovered her completely by accident, through a review Virginia Woolf wrote about one of Dorothy’s books. This was the beginning of a lifelong fascination with Dorothy. The more I learnt about her, the more I became convinced that her remarkable story needed to be unearthed and retold. Many years and a PhD thesis later, The Lodger was born.
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