This week on the show we wish Jane Delury a very Happy Book Launch Day! Michelle chats with the incredible professor and author, Jane Delury, who tells us all about her new book, Hedge. It’s jam packed with relationships, marriage, affairs, mother/daughter relationships, parenting, co-parenting, families, and mothers and all the different relationships that as a woman you may experience. Jane tells us all about her own background and how she chose the unusual and interesting profession of garden historian for her main character, Maud. This was such an interesting and fun episode, and we can’t wait for you all to listen and immediately run out to buy the book!
In This Episode, Michelle Talks About
- What exactly is a garden historian?
- How Jane came up with the theme for her book
- What Jane’s writing process looks like
What exactly is a garden historian?
Jane tells us about the fascinating profession of her main character, Maud. As a garden historian, her job is to find sites where gardens once existed and work alongside archaeologists to look at the soil and try to identify what grew there in the past. This is a much more common profession, and is more well known, In the UK, however we were so interested to find out about it and it is such a unique job to appear in her novel.
How Jane came up with the theme for her book
What Jane’s writing process looks like
We love hearing about an author’s unique and personal writing habits, processes, and rituals, and so Michelle asks Jane what hers are. She tells us about how her husband created a spreadsheet for her that she would use to log her time when writing every day that would automatically tally up the world count for her. She tells us how she would block out Friday mornings to write and before settling in, she would love to stand outside while her tea or coffee is brewing and observe the plants to see what has changed overnight. This gets her in the head space of observing, listening, looking, and not thinking so much so that she can focus on her writing.
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