‘… Anybody There?’

Penzance literary Festival presents Lucinda Hart: ' 'Is There Anybody There?' said the Traveller'.

Well, is there anybody there? For most writers, most of the time, the answer seems to be ‘no’. We spend years of our lives working on our craft, submitting work to agent after agent, publisher after publisher, but no-one opens the door. And then, one day, someone says ‘yes’ and we know that we have arrived. Lucinda Hart talks about her contemporary family dramas set in Cornwall – ‘The Broken Air’ and ‘The Beautiful Blue’ – and her previous novel, ‘Oberon Out’, a comedy of errors loosely based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Lucinda says: ‘I’m a published novelist from Mullion, represented by Vulpine Press. My contemporary family dramas are set in Cornwall, and explore the dark and light of modern life: illness, death, romance, motherhood etc. I also have a standalone novel, Oberon Out, which is a comedy of errors loosely set on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

I am back in Cornwall now, but I had ten years out in Bath where I studied for a BA in Creative Writing and Fine Art, and a MA in Creative Writing. After university I worked in qualitative research and NHS administration. I look for subjects for my books in the world around me, and my time in the hospitals gave me plenty of ideas.

Away from writing, I love reading and art, running and history. I play reasonable cribbage and appalling chess.

If I weren’t an author I would like be an undertaker.

My two daughters are my biggest supporters and have helped me in ways they will never know.