Alexandra Heminsley tells Emily Watkins what it’s like going from book reviewer to novel writer – and her fears about giving too much of herself away in the process
“The cliché is the woman who’s written by a man and she’s cleaning a pan after making some scrambled eggs, but you hear a lot about how her breasts are moving while she’s doing it. And you’re like, ‘are you telling me the story you think you’re telling me?’”
To further complicate matters, while Clara lives in Tooting, London, Maggie lives on Måsholmen, an almost impossibly remote island in a Norwegian archipelago. To find her, Clara must leave behind her boring job and controlling boyfriend in favour of breathtaking fjords. Under The Same Stars centres on a young woman’s journey to reconnect with her sister after the death of their father
“I went to Norway, it changed my life,” Heminsley enthuses. Heminsley visited Norway following a tumultuous period during which she’d navigated early parenthood while dealing with her breakup from her partner. “I’d been through quite a lot physically, and going there was the first time that I felt that sense of fully living inside my own body again since my son had been born. I felt a huge sense of physical rebooting,” she says.
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