You Let Me Go by Eliza Graham - Book Blitz + Giveaway
After her beloved grandmother Rozenn’s death, Morane is heartbroken to
learn that her sister is the sole inheritor of the family home in
Cornwall—while she herself has been written out of the will. With both her
business and her relationship with her sister on the rocks, Morane becomes
consumed by one question: what made Rozenn turn her back on her?
When she finds an old letter linking her grandmother to Brittany under
German occupation, Morane escapes on the trail of her family’s past. In the
coastal village where Rozenn lived in 1941, she uncovers a web of shameful
secrets that haunted Rozenn to the end of her days. Was it to protect those
she loved that a desperate Rozenn made a heartbreaking decision and changed
the course of all their lives forever?
Morane goes in search of the truth but the truth can be painful. Can she
make her peace with the past and repair her relationship with her
sister?
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Let-Me-Eliza-Graham-ebook/dp/B08HN92DLQ/
US - https://www.amazon.com/You-Let-Me-Eliza-Graham/dp/1542017106
Author Q&A
1. What would you
consider to be your Kryptonite as an author?
The more I thought
about this question, the more interesting it became. I think I’m prone to
overcomplicating things when I write and I have to keep pulling myself back and
asking what really matters here. What does the character want? What’s stopping
them from getting it? Why does it matter? If a protagonist doesn’t want
anything in particular, how can we feel much connection with them or care about
them? I think unlocking the want is the best way I can find my writing
resolve.
2. If you could
tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be?
Start now, don’t
waste time! When I first started working as a 20-something I didn’t own my own
PC (it was the eighties). With hindsight I should have just got on and bought
one and started writing. It can be a long apprenticeship before writers produce
anything worth publishing and I wasted some years.
3. What book do
you feel is under-appreciated? How about overrated?
There are plenty of
books I read which should have wider audiences. Michigan-based author, Kris
Riggle, is fantastic at drilling into women’s lives and families and what makes
and breaks them. I thought THE WHOLE GOLDEN WORLD was a really great read. I
don’t like to down-talk other people’s books. Authors’ fortunes go up and down
so much: a reader who’s flavor of the month one year can be forgotten the next.
On the other hand, some enduringly popular books that don’t personally appeal
to me have very wide and loyal readerships and it’s instructive to work out why
this is.
4. Favorite
childhood memory involving books?
I remember the
beautiful smell of a new book: how wonderful it was to open wrapping paper at
Christmas or on a birthday and see a shiny new paperback (sometimes hardback)
waiting to be read. I used to store my books all around the house and usually
went to bed with them, too. I still do this today, although it’s more likely an
iPad with an eBook on it than a print book nowadays, as we are officially out
of bookshelf space.
5. If you could
dine with any literary character, who would it be and why?
I’d like to catch up
with Anne Elliot from Jane Austen’s Persuasion, a year into her
marriage, perhaps, and see how content she is in her married life with
Frederick Wentworth.
6. What
fantastical fictional world would you want to live in (if any) given the
chance?
I wouldn’t mind a
voyage on the Dawn Treader. At the moment, travelling anywhere new sounds
pretty good. Magical places would be wonderful.
I can remember going
on French and German exchanges and learning stock phrases in both languages,
mainly concerning my family and where we lived. The other important phrase I
learned was when I grew up I wanted to be an author. I was always clear in my
mind about that but I knew I’d have to do it from a position of financial
security so I worked in marketing and public relations, eventually taking on
more writing and editing projects. By the time I had children I was freelancing
from home and it was easier to insert some fiction-writing hours into the day,
so I took advantage of that opportunity.
8. If you had to
describe yourself in three words, what would they be?
Curious. Sometimes
brooding. Prevaricating.
9. What is your
most unusual writing quirk?
I do tend to panic just
before a book comes out and hope that something happens to stop publication so
that nobody reads it. I believe this is a bit weird.
I’ve just
rewatched the 2011 version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with, among others, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy. Even though
I’ve read the novel several times as well as having watched the film when it
first came out, and also the BBC series, I still found myself picking out
things I hadn’t noticed before: little clues and insights. I was actually supposed
to be having an early night when I rewatched the film but could not pull myself
away. The acting is just so perfect: you are there in the dingy 1970s offices
where everything is happening in people’s heads and yet conveyed in myriad
subtle gestures and words that mean more than they seem to mean. It’s
ultimately all about the pain of being betrayed.
A real-life Pegasus
who could fly me to other times and places. I’ve always longed to see what my
part of Oxfordshire would have looked like a hundred years ago, for instance.
Preferably I’d have a Pegasus who doesn’t need mucking out or hay replenishment
and who gets along with our Scottish terrier, who has fixed ideas on other
critters coming to live in our household.
12. Have you ever
met anyone famous?
For our local
literary festival I interviewed Jenni Murray, renowned British broadcaster of
many years and best known as the presenter of Woman’s Hour on BBC radio and for
not suffering fools gladly. Interviewing such a famous interviewer was a knee-knockingly
terrifying prospect. She was actually very kind and even if she was rolling her
eyes internally, she didn’t show it. She was so interesting, too, when we
chatted about our families in the ‘green room’, i.e., the space behind the
civic centre stage where they store bits of scenery and chairs.
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