Michele Campbell is the author of It's Always the Husband: A Novel.From her Q&A with Deborah Kalb:
Q: How did you come up with the idea for It's Always the Husband and for your three main characters?Visit Michele Campbell's website.
A: I took inspiration from my own college days, and also from the fact that I was living in a college town at the time I began writing the book. I knew I wanted to write about female friendship gone very, very wrong.
I needed a setting that would explain why three extremely different women, who have little in common and are clearly bad influences on one another, might form an intense friendship.
I found the answer in memories of my own freshman year of college. You leave home for the first time and are suddenly surrounded by kids your own age, who may be smarter, prettier, richer, and, yes, nastier than you. That moment is incredibly intense, fraught with drama and peril as well as learning and growth. I think it...[read on]
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