Bestselling author Freya North has nothing to prove, with 16 novels under her belt and a deserved reputation for taking her readers on an engrossing emotional journey deep into the lives of her warmly engaging characters. But with her new novel, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne, Freya really pushed herself out of her comfort zone.
‘I wrote Eadie Browne for about two years and it’s the first book of my 16 where I really deleted a lot and took myself to task as a writer,’ says Freya. ‘I was writing and writing and not quite sure where this was going – it was taking me to places I didn’t quite understand. At 60,000 words I thought if what you read doesn’t serve a purpose you delete it. So I ended up taking out 37,000 words. It’s the first novel I’ve ever written in first person. I wanted this to be the best book that I’ve written and I think it is.’
is a poignantly coming-of-age novel that draws its reader deep into the story of Eadie and her growing pains, as she moves from life as a schoolgirl in a small Garden City in 1976 to university in Manchester during the heady halcyon days when ‘Madchester’ was the rave
