Mary Hooper is a very popular writer for children and young adults. Mary’s brilliant historical novels, At the House of the Magician, By Royal Command, The Betrayal, At the Sign of the Sugared Plum, Petals in the Ashes and The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose have a huge fan base, as do her contemporary novels for teenagers.
Fallen Grace, published by Bloomsbury in June 2010 and in paperback June 2011, is a thrilling tale set in the Victorian era, featuring Grace, who’s held in thrall by her own dark secret that threatens to overwhelm her and her sister.
Mary is very much in demand for her events at literary festivals and schools. She lives in Henley-on-Thames.
http://www.maryhooper.co.uk/
Interview:
If you could travel in a Time Machine would you go back to the past or into the future?
Absolutely the past!
If you were stranded on a desert island what 3 things would you want with you?
Moisturiser, shampoo, a library,
What is one book everyone should read?
No such book! Everyone has different tastes, likes, wants, needs.
What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Vanilla
If you could meet one person who has died who would you choose?
My mum.
One food you would never eat?
Fried eggs
Please tell us in one sentence only, why we should read your book.
Because you'll learn all about how funerals were conducted in the 18th Century!
Tell us your most rewarding experience since being published.
Getting letters saying I had turned girls into readers when they had never before finished a novel.
If you could jump in to a book, and live in that world.. which would it be?
Very happy in my own world, thanks. Oh, ok, if you really want me to, I would go up the Magic Faraway Tree and live in the Land of Birthdays.
What was your favorite book when you were a child/teen?
Just William (Richmal Crompton)
If you could choose only one time period and place to live, when and where would you live and why?
Restoration London - after the Great Fire - and as long as I was very rich indeed.
If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
London. I would have a flat with a balcony overlooking the Thames near Tower Bridge.
What is your favorite Quote?
You are responsible for your own happiness.
When you were little, what did you want to be when you "grew up"?
A mummy.
How did you know you should become an author?
When I sold the first short story I ever wrote.
Can you see yourself in any of your characters?
There's a little bit of me in all of them, and a little bit of them in me.
Hidden talent?
I have been racking my brains about this...I can crochet - does that count?
Favorite Food?
Prawns
Favorite Candy?
Chocolate bars (fruit and nut)
How do you react to a bad review?
Call down curses on the reviewer's head. And then forget it.
You have won one million dollars what is the fi
6 Comments on Author Interview & Book Giveaway: Fallen Grace by Mary Hooper, last added: 2/15/2011
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I wonder if Ms. Hooper is referring to Cadbury's Fruit and Nuts - because that's one of my favorite candy bars, ever! :) And I love how she chooses to take an entire "library" with her - that's funny!
Thanks for the Interview and Giveaway, Kathy! :)
Fallen Grace sounds like a good book. I'm glad that you recognize that there is no one book everyone should read, that each person has different tastes and needs.
This is the first I have heard of this book and it sounds like one I would enjoy. A library on a desert island - a woman after my own heart.
Great interview. Fallen Grace is on my TBR list. It sounds so good.
Thanks for the interview and giveaway :)
Wonderful interview. The book sounds awesome and has been added to my TBR regardless. Thank you for sharing and introducing me to this wonderful new author :).
Have a great day,
BK
Fallen Grace sounds kuje a great read. I hope to win a copy! If not I'll have to buy one.....
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