‘I always assumed,’ says this month’s new author, primary school teacher Luan Goldie, when asked what made her want to be a writer, ‘that everyone (else) was making up stories. But, there was something about seeing Zadie Smith, maybe it was in a newspaper or magazine, which made me think, for the first time, that being a writer was a real thing someone like me could do.’
Luan’s debut novel Nightingale Point, published by HarperCollins imprint HQ in July, deals with tragedy on a London council estate, and how the survivors come out of it and get on with their lives.
‘My husband is Dutch and we visit Holland several times a year,’ explains Luan, from east London. ‘When I first heard about the Bijlmer Air Disaster, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. The idea of a plane accidentally crashing into a tower block was terrifying. But then, when I began reading into the event, I was struck by the stories of the survivors and how they managed to get on with their lives afterwards.’
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