Caroline Hulse's new novel is The Adults.From her Q&A with Deborah Kalb:
Q: How did you come up with the idea for The Adults?Follow Caroline Hulse on Twitter.
A: I was trying to write a suspense novel (strangely, the book wasn’t originally written as a comedy) and I wanted to write about a situation in which were people behaving badly because they felt insecure. I remembered an article I’d once read about people going on holidays with their exes.
At the time, I’d thought, why would anyone do that? Surely that would be hard. I realised this was a perfect conflict scenario, and everything flowed from there.
Q: You tell the story primarily from three characters' perspectives. How did you decide on your point-of-view characters?
A: I like writing from more than one perspective because, in real life, people can perceive the same situation in very different ways and this disconnect is...[read on]
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