Before I wrote novels, I was a screenwriter on a couple of low-budget films and on TV series, including The Bill. You learn pace and structure on shows like that. I feel immensely lucky that Sister, my first psychological thriller, won the Richard and Judy best debut novel award in 2010 and made it onto the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller lists. I’ve since written three more novels. The latest, Three Hours, is set in a progressive independent school in the countryside. I made it up — it’s not Frensham Heights, even though my husband, Martin Lupton, an obstetrician, and I moved from west London and bought our house near Farnham, Surrey, eight years ago so our sons, Cosmo, now 19, and Joe,
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Rosamund Lupton interview: the writer on her bookshelves, writing routines and rescue cats
The thriller writer on being waist high in daisies and researching her novels on the dark net. Interview by Karen Robinson
Rosamund Lupton with Galahad, one of her rescue cats
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