LUAN GOLDIE
Adrian Magson talks to a debut novelist who overcame rejection to fulfil her destiny as an author
‘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.