The author of The Look, The Castle and Threads speaks to members of The Abbey School Reading Library Book Clubs (who helped her to write her new book, Love Song) about writing, music – and which is better, French rap or German death metal
What inspired the title ‘Love Song’?
Titles are always difficult. For a long time, the story was called This Is Not A Love Song, which is the title of a great post-punk song by Public Image Limited, and which captures Nina’s feelings perfectly. But my friend Keren David was publishing a book called This Is Not A Love Story, so the titles were way too close. The book was Heart of Glass for a while (or HOG for short, in my emails to my editor), after the Blondie song. Chicken House weren’t sure about that, though, so it became Love Song (shortened from my first idea) as a holding title. Then Helen Crawford-Wright created the cover, and it just looked right. We all thought so, so we left it at that. And that’s why the final chapter echoes the title – because the cover helped inspire me to know how Nina would feel at the end.
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