{"id":44534,"date":"2025-02-18T08:07:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suffolkcommunitylibraries.co.uk\/?p=44534"},"modified":"2025-09-23T08:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:14:56","slug":"meet-the-author-nydia-hetherington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suffolkcommunitylibraries.co.uk\/bn\/meet-the-author-nydia-hetherington\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Author: Nydia Hetherington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;off&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_dark_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_not_modal=&#8221;on&#8221; da_is_singular=&#8221;off&#8221; da_with_loader=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_shadow=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;19px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.3em&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>18 February 2025<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;19px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.3em&#8221; link_font_size=&#8221;19px&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Nydia Hetherington is from Leeds &#8211; although born on Merseyside and spending the first few years of life on the Isle of Man &#8211; Nydia moved to London in her early twenties to embark on an acting career. Later she moved to Paris where she created her own theatre company. When she returned to London a decade later, she completed a creative writing degree at Birkbeck, graduating with first class honours.<\/p>\n<p>Nydia&#8217;s first novel <a href=\"https:\/\/suffolk.spydus.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/spydus.exe\/ENQ\/WPAC\/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&amp;BRN=2956006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Girl Made of Air<\/em><\/a> was published by Quercus in 2020 and will be familiar to many Suffolk readers. Nydia&#8217;s latest title <em>Sycorax<\/em> re-imagines the story of Shakepeare&#8217;s most powerful witch. <a href=\"https:\/\/suffolk.spydus.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/spydus.exe\/ENQ\/WPAC\/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&amp;BRN=3698578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sycorax<\/em><\/a> is published by Quercus on 27th February. You can find <em>Sycorax<\/em> and <em>A Girl Made of Air<\/em> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/suffolkcommunitylibraries.co.uk\/borrow\/our-catalogue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suffolk Community Libraries catalogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;19px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.3em&#8221; link_font_size=&#8221;19px&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where did you first develop your interest in myths? Were you an avid reader as a child?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a question that often embarrasses me because the answer, sadly, is no. I would love to have a romantic picture of myself as a child squirreled away with my little pile of books, but it\u2019s just not true. From an early age I disliked school and books seemed to fall within that domain, so I really wasn\u2019t a big reader. But I did love storytelling. So, I made things up and told a lot of stories. Then with my best friend, Suzy, we played out our odd little tales in the playground. I remember one favorite was about a yellow dog that came from space. But there were many mermaids and fairies, too.<\/p>\n<p>Our local library was actually a shed on the corner of the park where we went every week with school. The books I chose, time after time, were the differently coloured books of fairies by Andrew Lang. I\u2019d often renew them over again until I finally got around to reading the stories because I didn\u2019t find it easy to sit still and focus (I was too busy dreaming!). I was definitely a fairytale fan! The Brothers Grimm of course but also the great Hans Andersen. Suzy\u2019s mum was Danish, so those stories played a huge part in shaping my love of strange tales. I only started reading books properly for pleasure at sixteen years old, and it was Wuthering Heights that got me. It got me and it never let me go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your journey to publication before <a href=\"https:\/\/suffolk.spydus.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/spydus.exe\/ENQ\/WPAC\/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&amp;BRN=2956006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>A Girl Made of Air<\/strong><\/em><\/a> was published?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was a performer and theatre creator for most of my life. After trying to work as an actor in London throughout my twenties, I eventually moved to Paris where I continued training in physical and devised theatre then set up my own theatre company. After almost a decade in France I moved back to London and that\u2019s when writing took over. I didn\u2019t know where I was going with it, so I applied to Birkbeck University to do a Creative Writing Degree. As I couldn\u2019t really afford the fees, I did the course part time over four years, working in a shoe shop in the daytime and studying at night. <em>A Girl Made of Air<\/em> started life as coursework. I liked the circus world, so boldly decided to make it into a novel. In the end, it took about eight\/nine years from starting to write the book to getting it published.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the character of Mouse in <em>A Girl Made of Air<\/em> take shape for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She came together slowly as the novel progressed. At first, she was much tougher than she ended up, with a real hard nut personality. As the writing progressed, she moved and shifted into being a character with a far deeper emotional breadth than I\u2019d originally imagined. She\u2019s not an easy character to like at times, but even so, I do love her, and she became strangely real to me by the end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there such a thing as a typical writing day for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes. It depends on how I\u2019m feeling, health wise. I live with chronic illness so it\u2019s not always easy to have a routine I can stick to. In general, I write when the day is still young and fresh. I\u2019m more physically able to sit at my desk for a few hours in the morning when my energy levels are pretty good. I start to flag at lunchtime and usually I\u2019m finished between 2 \u2013 3pm when I can really crash. I do like to get out for a walk if I can, but again, there are different factors at play when it comes to pain and energy levels, so it\u2019s not always possible.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a very small life, really, being a writer. To write a novel you must be on your own, in your writing place, putting the words down, for long periods of time. It\u2019s expansive in that you\u2019re constantly delving into imagined worlds, people and places, but it\u2019s also tiny. It\u2019s just you, alone with the words on the screen, and they often don\u2019t behave very well, giving you no end of trouble!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you tell us a little about your latest book <a href=\"https:\/\/suffolk.spydus.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/spydus.exe\/ENQ\/WPAC\/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&amp;BRN=3698578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Sycorax<\/strong><\/em><\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Sycorax<\/em> is the imagined life story of the \u2018foul witch\u2019 of that name from Shakespeare\u2019s <em>The Tempest<\/em>. As she\u2019s already dead when the action of the play begins, we only know about her through the ranting of Prospero (jealous perhaps?) and through the fact Caliban is her son. My aim was to give voice to this absent, silenced woman. I tell her tale through the prism of feminism, and with a focus on how women with illness and disability have been viewed in art and literature throughout history. It\u2019s also a fable, a lyrical story about a magical storm witch, and a coming-of-age tale about finding our power and strengths. When it comes to the actual writing, I also wanted to make the novel as beautiful a book as possible, to do with language what a composer might do with music. So hopefully there\u2019s something in there for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sycorax is an unseen character in <a href=\"https:\/\/suffolk.spydus.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/spydus.exe\/ENQ\/WPAC\/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&amp;BRN=2589894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Tempest<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Was that an advantage in re-imaging her character?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes. What little information we are told about her is really helpful in shaping a story. But really, she\u2019s a blank canvas in that strong framework of the play. And that was incredibly exciting to me as a writer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s next for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have some ideas for future novels and have tentatively started jotting something down. It\u2019s full of folklore, nature and angry women. I\u2019m still at the biting my lip, frowning stage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you are not writing which authors do you enjoy reading?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are so many. 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