{"id":46017,"date":"2023-03-14T11:17:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T11:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suffolkcommunitylibraries.co.uk\/?p=46017"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:25:47","slug":"meet-the-author-sarah-hardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suffolkcommunitylibraries.co.uk\/lt\/meet-the-author-sarah-hardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Author: Sarah Hardy"},"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;]<em><strong>14 March 2023<\/strong><\/em>[\/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>Sarah Hardy is a novelist based in Suffolk. <a href=\"https:\/\/suffolk.spydus.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/spydus.exe\/ENQ\/WPAC\/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&amp;BRN=3266391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Walled Garden<\/em><\/a> is Sarah&#8217;s first historical novel. It is set in Suffolk in 1946 and is a story of love, the trauma of war and the miracle of human resilience. <em>The Walled Garden<\/em> is published by Manilla on 16 March and is also available 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>Who were your heroes as you were growing up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was a wonderful local library where I grew up in the London suburbs and during my school holidays I would simply steep myself in novels \u2013 especially the nineteenth century classics. So my heroes were Jane Austen, the Bront\u00ebs, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy\u2026 Shutting myself away, I could become Anne Elliot, Margaret Hale, Dorothea Brooke and all of those extraordinary women falling in love \u2013 not always wisely \u2013 wanting to change the world and live passionate lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>With your background in magazines and newspapers, did you always feel you had the potential to write a novel?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Working in magazines and newspapers didn\u2019t really make me feel I had the \u201cpotential\u201d to write a novel, instead it helped give me the professionalism to do so. Journalism was a great background for learning the discipline of facing that blank page, going to my desk every morning, especially those days when I don\u2019t know what to say and outside the sun is shining and it\u2019s so beautiful and beckoning and tempting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your new book <a href=\"https:\/\/suffolk.spydus.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/spydus.exe\/ENQ\/WPAC\/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&amp;BRN=3266391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Walled Garden<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is set in Suffolk. Can you tell us a little about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have always been fascinated by how people deal with extreme situations and after the Second World War Britain as a nation was suffering from what now we would call PTSD. Victory did not herald a magic new dawn of peace and prosperity. Instead there was austerity, secrets and silence. Everyone was scarred &#8211; not just those who had fought but their loved ones who had waited at home, only for men to return whose experiences had made them strangers. There was no help. You just had to get by, trying to reconstruct your broken life, your shattered relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The story is set in 1946 in a Suffolk village and the big country house setting belies the damp and cold within, where a woman is trying to keep alive a marriage that has been violently ruptured amidst a community who are silently mourning all they have lost, as she fights to bring back the beauty of the walled garden.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the character of Alice Rayne come together as you wrote? Was she a composite character or was she based on anyone?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alice is certainly a composite character but the very first scene I wrote \u2013 when Alice has been out walking for hours and is reluctant to go home is based on how I often feel at the end of a walk \u2013 though not for reasons as sinister as Alice\u2019s. I simply would rather be outside in the Suffolk beauty than going home to make dinner or do the laundry or some such boring chore.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Alice is dyslexic \u2013 as my father was. Thankfully, we have a much better understanding of dyslexia now but for someone of Alice\u2019s generation it must have been so debilitating and humiliating. In one of the last conversations I had with my father I asked him to ask his doctor to call me and he had to ask me how to spell \u201cdaughter\u201d. Heartbreaking\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first thing I noticed about <em>The Walled Garden<\/em> was the spectacular cover. Did you have any input to that process?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have always loved Dutch seventeenth century flower paintings \u2013 radiant blooms against the black background \u2013 and I\u2019d hoped for something that could convey the possibility of light in the darkness. So I was delighted with the cover.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s next for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m working on a novel, also a tortured love story set in Suffolk with characters facing difficult moral dilemmas, exploring forgiveness in the aftermath of the First World War.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>One book, piece of music or work of art that everyone should experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is so difficult. But I\u2019m choosing Winifred Holtby\u2019s novel, <em>South Riding<\/em>, as it was a big influence in writing The Walled Garden. For me, what is wonderful about South Riding is how you feel compassion for all the flawed characters, and I wanted readers of <em>The Walled Garden<\/em> to feel similar compassion for mine and have a sense that they too would probably have acted in just the same way if they\u2019d been born at that time, in those circumstances, facing those same dreadful dilemmas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is on your &#8216;to read&#8217; pile at the moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ronald Blythe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/suffolk.spydus.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/spydus.exe\/ENQ\/WPAC\/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&amp;BRN=3199093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Next to Nature<\/em><\/a>. When I first moved to Suffolk, more than 10 years ago now, I read his <a href=\"https:\/\/suffolk.spydus.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/spydus.exe\/ENQ\/WPAC\/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&amp;BRN=52674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Akenfield<\/em><\/a>. I remembered my grandmother loving it and I raced through her old copy from 1975. But I\u2019m pacing myself with Next to Nature. It\u2019s divided into the months of the year, and it\u2019s so beautiful I\u2019m only allowing myself to read the month we\u2019re currently in. Blythe has that wonderful ability to take you \u201cthere\u201d \u2013 be it in his garden cutting down the dead russet apple tree or watching the blazing sunset on <em>Twelfth Night<\/em>. Last night he mentioned Rose Macaulay\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/suffolk.spydus.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/spydus.exe\/ENQ\/WPAC\/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&amp;BRN=41884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Towers of Trebizond<\/em><\/a>, one of my favourite novels. I\u2019m more devoted than ever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the best thing about living in Suffolk?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The beauty: I love to walk, especially in winter, or very early in the morning when often I don\u2019t meet a soul. All that reading of the Bront\u00ebs and Hardy only encouraged my longing for wild open spaces. So I set off at dawn down deserted paths, invariably heading towards the river or the sea as the austere contours of the fields reveal themselves, the moon frozen in a pale sky. I love the sound of the wind in the reeds, the buzzards circling high in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>And although I\u2019ve walked here for years now, every time it\u2019s a new experience: the river, sometimes rough and swollen like flowing pewter, at other times a mirror reflecting these vast East Anglian skies. But always, whatever the weather, this beautiful, bleak landscape moves me and saddens me and uplifts me, and engages my imagination.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you tell us one thing about yourself that your readers may not know?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For years, I resisted pleas from my family for a dog. They were too much work, too much of a commitment \u2013 all the obvious reasons \u2013 and I was in no doubt that most of the work would fall to me. 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