We’ve been waiting five years for Jenny Valentine’s modern novel Fire Colour One. But it’s here at last! She tells EllaClaire all about it in this fascinating and very honest interviewAt the time which you wrote your first novel,Finding Violet Park, you already had another job - what motivated you to begin writing a book then?I was working as a teaching assistant at a local primary school and I loved that job. Six-year-olds are hilarious company. But I had always wanted to write and I knew I was sort of sitting on the belief from scare of failure so I gave it a disappear. My children were very cramped then. I remember thinking I wanted them to grow up and be proud of me.
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Source: theguardian.com