The Sunday Times bestselling novelist Trisha Ashley is a hugely successful author of witty, engaging romantic comedies. Over the decades, she has worked very hard to earn her reputation as one of the UK’s most popular writers. Trisha’s latest novel is The Wedding Dress Repair Shop. Who or what was the inspiration for this new story? ‘It’s always hard to say where the various ideas that combine to form a novel come from,’ she says. ‘But one day I thought how interesting it would be to create a wedding dress museum in which the dresses each had a story: tragic, happy, sad or funny. The seed of The Wedding Dress Repair Shop was sown.
‘The dresses in the novel range from antique to modern, and were extensively
