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Stuart Turton's debut novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, won the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards and the British Book Awards Debut of the Year. A Sunday Times bestseller, it has been translated into over thirty languages, and has sold over one million copies in the UK and US combined. The Devil and the Dark Water, his follow up, won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction and was selected for the BBC Two Book Club, Between the Covers, and the Radio 2 Jo Whiley Book Club. Stuart lives near London with his wife and daughters.
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You've said of your work that you have written about a locked room, a locked boat, and now a locked island. What draws you to such isolated settings?
There's something that feels inherently "right" about writing a murder mystery in an isolated location. They bring their own tension, they immediately limit the movements of your characters, and they're fun because you can really get to grips with the space and make them feel lived in. The problem is that once you've locked people in a house, a boat, and then on an island, it's pretty difficult to find the next size up. Maybe I'll trap a bunch of folks on a space station.
How did you get the idea for this book?
It emerged from the same maelstrom of brain chaos all my books emerge from. It's a sort of trial- and- error thing. I start with an enormous idea and the concepts I want to explore, then realize a year into the writing that it's not going to work. I then panic, finish it anyway, listen to my editors as they patiently explain why it's not going to work, and start again with an almost- brand- new idea that's a little bit smaller. Rinse and repeat for three years and five drafts until I eventually create a book. It's not a healthy way of working and is almost certainly going to ...
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