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TRAVEL
Travel,
for me - for us, I should say, because Richard and I
have the same feeling for exploring other countries,
other possibilities, other ways of life - has always
been a must. Maybe its a case of the grass is always
greener but we love dipping into other worlds.
We
have lived such a nomadic life, everywhere from the
apartment on Ipanema Beach in Rio to a house in the
Hollywood Hills; from a crumbling eleventh-century manor
house in the depths of the English countryside to a
flat in London's Chelsea. From a townhouse in Dublin
to a twentieth-floor glass-walled waterfront apartment
in Vancouver; from Spain to Provence and back to California.
There's just something in us that kept us always on
the move, looking for Paradise, I suppose, and one of
the benefits of that search is that I am able to use
all those locations in my books. I've walked down those
streets, breathed the air, felt how it was to be there.
I
think we've finally settled down, though as Richard's
brother said, 'Other people go to foreign countries
to visit. You go there to live.' Well, who knows, there's
a lot more world out there.
My
first novel, Leonie,
was set in Paris and the South of France, venues to
which I keep on returning, and I admit to a love affair
with both. Paris, a golden beauty of a city, is my favorite.
I can never spend enough time there and in fact, I've
just finished writing The
Last Time I Saw Paris (published in summer 2001
by St. Martin's Press)
Now,
to you readers who are familiar with my fiction, this
book will come as sort of a surprise. Not a murderer,
not a woman-in-peril, not a rapist in sight. It's quite
different: romantic, erotic, funny and sexy. And though
it's fiction The Last Time
I Saw Paris is based on my own life and travels.
How
much of the character, Lara, is really me? You will
have to read PARIS to find out.
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