Life Through Cellophane

Questions I get asked

How much of the book is based on my life?

Not much. When people talk about it with me, they ask me about specific episodes. So far, 1/10 guesses has been right.

Am I the first person to tell you...

Possibly.  Everyone has their own reaction to a book, after all.  An extraordinary number of readers have told me their thoughts about Elizabeth Smith and about the food and the drink and the mirror and the ants and that Liz's boss from hell must be based on their boss from hell and that they know this place or this time or this feeling because it's happened to them.  It's lovely.  It means, however, that you'd have to be quite inventive to be the first person to tell me something about Life Through Cellophane. Except...no-one's told me about tiddliwinks yet.  So there is hope.

What else can I tell you about Life through Cellophane that won't send you madly running as far from it as you can get?  No ants were hurt in the research for it?  No public servants were hurt in the making of the novel, either, and the boss-from-hell is not anyone I know.  Some of Bronny's stories are real, but Bronny herself is invented.  I am not Liz, though I wouldn't mind her dressmaking skills.

The mirror was inspired by one I own, a family one. The first time I experienced full-on Jewish mourning as a child was for my grandfather and this mirror was on the wall. covered by a piece of cloth.  The white cloth was light and fluttered whenever a door was opened.  I scared myself silly thinking it was my grandfather's soul trying to escape back into our world.

Nicole Murphy told me Liz needed a younger man in her life.

And that's the full sum of frequently-asked-questions about Life through Cellophane.  I get lots of reader comments, but not very many questions.  It is available from Eneit Press now and the Eneit Press website will be updated from time to time showing other places it can be bought.