1. Describe She Came From Away in a tweet. (140 characters or less)
2. What is the hardest part of writing a mystery?
3. What is your biggest pet peeve, regarding writing or in general?
4. What are some of your favorite books or authors?
5. If we looked under your bed right now, what would we find?
6. Which one of your characters do you relate to the most and why?
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She Came From Away by D. Edward Bradley
Summary:
A dead uncle, an ordinary and a summer in a faroff place – they all come together to change Riley’s life forever. Riley Barnett is a second year student at the University of Toronto. Early in April of 1978, the postman brings a letter that lures her to Newfoundland where she spends the summer vacation. It is a friendly place for those who come from away, but a dark conspiracy soon rears its ugly head and almost destroys her.
About the Author:
David Edward Bradley’s fascination with foreign places comes naturally. Conceived on the Dark Continent in the British Colony of Nigeria, where his father worked as a surveyor, he grew up in the 1930s. His most vivid childhood memory was seeing the menacing shadow of the Graff Zeppelin floating among the clouds, a portent of things to come.
When he was only four years old, his mother joined her husband in Africa. They were stranded there during much of the Second World War, leaving him with his grandmother. In 1943, his parents returned to England and David moved on to a Public School. It was in a similar location to that in Harry’s War, which is to some extent autobiographical. A number of David’s war-related experiences are real, but embellished to make them more exciting.
Mr. Bradley admits that his early career as a Research Physicist came about through an aptitude for repairing intricate mechanisms and a timely job at a laboratory engaged in the exciting new field of Electron Microscopy. After several years of ground-breaking research, he gained his MSc and PhD degrees in Microbiology at the University of Edinburgh, and satisfied his wanderlust by participating in scientific expeditions and conferences around the globe.
In 1974, Dr. Bradley immigrated to Canada where he worked at Memorial University of Newfoundland. There, at the easternmost edge of North America where the passage of years is marked by the southward migration of icebergs from Greenland, he continued his research in Microbiology. After retiring in 1995, D. Edward Bradley now devotes his time to writing fiction at his home in Kingston, Ontario.
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Nori
What fun interview questions! I loved the one that had to be answered in Tweet. I never heard of this book before and it sound really interesting.
Christy LoveOfBooks
29 people? Glad you had a good one.
Great interview. I’m so with you on the barking dogs. There’s barking, and then there’s excessive barking. Ugh.
Howard Sherman
I thoroughly enjoyed the interview and came away very interested in the book.