Novelist Jane Cable, who also writes as Eva Glyn, comes from a family of writers and other creative people, and says she is sure her background helped her to realise her own writing ambitions.
‘While I was growing up, it seemed entirely normal to want to write stories,’ she says. ‘My late father Mercer Simpson was a poet, literary critic and reader for the Welsh Arts Council. One of his (much older) cousins was John Hampson, an author and fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group.’
I asked Jane to tell me a little about the central characters in both her Jane Cable and Eva Glyn novels. ‘My characters vary so much,’ she says. ‘My first few books feature only contemporary characters. But, over
