Every summer (and sometimes at Easter too) I spent my holidays there, six or seven weeks at a stretch, running barefoot, fishing, sailing, exploring the woods, and this went on until I was in my twenties. The story behind Coastliners hasn’t ended yet, and may never do so.įor many years, my grandfather had a beach house on an island off southern Brittany. Because my books already borrow quite a lot from members of my family, their history and their memories, I have to be especially careful not to go too far, not to re-open old wounds. One of the questions I am always asked is “Why do you write about France when you live in Yorkshire?” There are many answers to this, but one of the principal reasons is the happy writer’s motto Never too close to home.
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