Ann-Marie MacDonald on staying open to surprise
"There is a truth which must out. And Charlotte, with her insatiably curious mind says at one point, 'I was more curious than frightened.'
And I think that's the triumph, that's the energy. If we can keep our curiosity just a bit ahead of our fear I think we're going to be okay."
We were joined by actor, playwright, and novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald, author of the international bestseller Fall on Your Knees, to talk about her new novel, Fayne, a work of historical fiction about a girl named Charlotte, her father Henry, a painting of Charlotte’s late mother and infant brother—and a secret that lies between them.
Fayne
In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious condition.
View eBook View AudiobookOn the genre of Fayne, MacDonald says, "Gothic fiction is never far from my thoughts. I was about 10 years old when I first read Jane Eyre. And I was also still immersed in Looney Tunes. What am I saying? I'm still immersed in Looney Tunes and Jane Eyre. These were the twin pillars of my formation as a writer."
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