Katie Fforde
By Nicola Warwick
I first came across Katie Fforde because of the appealing cover on her first book. I loved the painting of a brown-haired young woman (who resembles Sigourney Weaver) in a country kitchen setting. And the title Living Dangerously was intriguing. Yet it took a few more weeks and a few more visits to Waterstone's before it was on my shopping list. I started reading it and wished I'd not waited so long.
Living Dangerously falls into my personal category of truly unputdownable books. Polly Cameron as a thirty-something singleton reminded me a little of me and David, the character with whom she has a love/hate, on/off relationship, was terribly Darcyesque and would have female readers swooning as much as they did over Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice.
I enjoyed Living Dangerously so much that I did something I'd never done before: wrote to the author to say how much I loved the book. Since then Katie became one of the contributors to life's little luxuries and we met at the book launch at the Groucho Club in London. Recently I visited her at her home in Gloucestershire and she kindly agreed to an interview.
I re-read Katie's books often--it's rather nice to be able to read someone's work when you've been lucky enough to meet them as well.
I can scarcely wait for her next novel but I'm going to have to--it's due out some time in 1999.
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Copyright © by Nicola Warwick, 2001. Nicola Warwick is the author of life's little luxuries. She lives in Manchester in the North West of the UK. Nicola's articles have been published in various writing, computing, and electronics magazines. She currently works as Product Marketing Manager at World Online. Read more about her here. |
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