A very warm welcome to Michelle Lovric

    I am delighted to welcome my special guest Michelle Lovric to Cornflower Books today. 

Michelle lives in Venice and London. She’s the author of four adult novels set in Venice and an anthology, Venice: Tales of the City. Her third novel, The Remedy, was long-listed for the Orange Prize. Her fourth adult novel, The Book of Human Skin, came out with Bloomsbury in April 2010. Her first novel for 9-12-year-olds, The Undrowned Child, tells what happens when science meets baddened magic in Venice in 1899 (you may remember that I loved it!). Two brave and clever children must save the city from the vengeful spirit of the Traitor, Bajamonte Tiepolo, returned from the dead after 700 years. The Mourning Emporium, the sequel, was published on October 28^th and transports us from a frozen Venice to a grieving London, where Queen Victoria lies dying, and a massacre of innocent mourners is the object of a dreadful conspiracy between Bajamonte and an unscrupulous Pretender to the British throne. All that stands between the forces of evil and their success are two Venetian children, a hundred mermaids, a talking bulldog, some pumpkin-sellers and a devastatingly handsome circus master …

     My thanks to Michelle for giving us a marvellous post about her work, her inspiration and the thoughts at the back of her mind as she writes so entertainingly and with such originality!

Comments

[lindsay]

I presume that by "adult novels", you mean novels for children over 18, not pornography!

[Michelle Lovric]

Absolutely not pornography. (Though I wouldn't want a child to go near The Book of Human Skin, as it is extremely dark.)

It is hard to find a way to express 'adult' as opposed to 'children's' without an erotic implication. Any suggestions for an uncontaminated term would be much appreciated, not just by me but by other people who write cross-genre.
Michelle