It's here: the first copy of my new book! As you can see, it's about a little girl with a precocious talent for the piano... Aged three, Alicia sits down at her dad's battered old upright and begins to play by ear, and in the right key, a piece she'd heard at nursery. Her Derbyshire-dwelling parents, Kate and Guy, have to decide what on earth to do with her. Kate wants her to develop her talent to the maximum, but she also wants her to be at home. Guy wants her to be a normal kid. Alicia just wants to play her piano and walk her dog on the moors. Alicia's motorbike-fixated brother, Adrian, sees through them all. As Alicia grows up and her fame spreads, everyone wants a piece of the Peak District prodigy. But life, naturally, has ideas of its own...
ALICIA'S GIFT is available for preordering at Amazon.co.uk here: beautiful quality, limited edition hardback! Release date is 8 March. The paperback will be out later in the year.
3 comments:
CONGRATS!!!
now, go celebrate!
Jessica
have almost finished Rites of Spring and am most impressed. It all moves and reads beautifully, and is in every way plausible: music, marriages, eating disorders and all. Looking forward to tracking down the other two.
One question. When I am talking about your books, do you pronounce your family name to rhyme with "pen" or with "con"?
Thanks
Guy
Thanks, Gal & Guy!
I promise my pen is not a con, at least it's not meant to be.....
Pronunciation: usually to rhyme with 'pen', just because it's easy. My trip to Lithuania taught me that the original spelling was DUKHEN, with that throaty sound in the middle that British people can't make. These days am attempting to go over to 'Duchene', a la French, for long and complex reasons.
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