It means you have to imagine somewhere more vividly.”įoley, 36, is a cheery writer but also an extremely hard-working one. And I do think there’s an element of that for me.
Which is set, naturally, in the West Country.ĭoesn’t it put her off, visiting wonderful new locations and then trying to immerse herself in entirely different ones while she’s writing? “It’s probably a bit w**ky to invoke Hemingway, but he said that to write properly about a place you have to have left it. I was finishing The Guest List in an Airbnb in Paris when I came up with the idea for The Paris Apartment.” She likes to travel when she’s writing, and when we speak she has recently returned from six weeks in Northern Spain, where she rented an apartment with her toddler and got to work on a new book.
“I wrote The Hunting Party in Iran, where it was really hot. Lucy Foley’s hit crime novels are always set in glamorous places – a New Year’s Eve getaway at a highland lodge, a wedding at a remote Irish island, a beautiful Parisian apartment – but she usually writes them from somewhere completely different.
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