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DANIEL HURST

Margaret James talks to the psychological thriller writer about plotting, planning, and unusual things happening to ordinary people

It’s always interesting to learn about how writers actually become writers.

As a result of nature or of nurture? By accident or by design? Do they come from families (or even dynasties) of playwrights, novelists and/or other creative people?Or are they the first to make it into print?

‘If you’d asked me this question a year ago, I’d have said I was the only writer in my family,’ says bestselling novelist Daniel Hurst, a prolific author of psychological thrillers. ‘But my father has recently written his first book, and has shown me many story notes he’s made over the years. This tells me I have clearly inherited some kind of writing gene from him! I was always writing as a child, although I can’t say any of those early stories are worth reading.’

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