In conversation with... Natasha Farrant
Hello Natasha! First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the publication of your latest novel, The Things We Did for Love . Can you tell us what it is about? A: Hello Silvia and thank you! THE THINGS WE DID FOR LOVE is essentially a love story set in France in World War 2 during the last months of the German occupation. I don’t want to give too much away but it is based on true events and, given the context, it is as much about heroism, sacrifice, betrayal and redemption as it is about true love. The novel is set during World War II. What kind of research did you have to carry out? Did you complete all of it in advance so that you could then dive into the writing process undisturbed or was it more a research-as-you-go sort of process? A: I had already done a lot of research into the Occupation for my first novel, Diving Into Light , which entailed interviewing people who had lived in France during that period, as well as reading a tremendous amount around the subject. For THE ...