Frances Fyfield

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Frances Fyfield

Frances Fyfield grew up in rural Derbyshire, but her adult life has been spent mostly in London, with long intervals in Norfolk and Deal. She studied English and went on to qualify as a solicitor, working for what is now the Crown Prosecution Service, thus learning a bit about murder at second hand.  Years later, writing became her real vocation, although the law and its ramifications still haunt her and inform many of her novels.

She is a novelist, short story writer for magazines and radio, sometime Radio 4 contributor, (Front Row, Quote Unquote, Night Waves,) and presenter of Tales from the Stave.  When she’s not working (which is as often as possible), Frances can be found in the nearest junk/charity shop or auction, looking for the kind of paintings which enhance her life.

Interviewed 03 September 2016

Ten words to sum up your working life to date ...

Variable, interesting, frightening, satisfying, unsatisfying, giggly, funny, privileged, humbling, lucky.

Nine things you can see from where you're sitting ...

All paintings in oil, British 20th century, mainly portraits, each telling its own story.

Eight minutes to prepare a meal. What's it going to be ?

Heinz tomato soup, with toast and butter.

Seven people you'd like to go for a drink with ...

Prosper, Molly, Maisie, Ian, Dawn and Sam (especially ten-year-old Sam), Adrian Ryan.

Six things you can't live without ...

Soap, milk, tea, running water, warmth, conversation.

Five favourite words ...

Elegance, rectitude, truth, coincidence, laughter.

Four places you'd run away to ...

Nowhere. I like it where I am. (But maybe a shed.)

Three books you've bought recently ...

The Death’s Head Chess Club by John Donoghue.
22 Dead Little Bodies by Stuart MacBride
Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L Sayers

Two things that make you rant ...

Sainsbury’s and Marks and Spencer.

One thing you'd tell your teenage self ...

Being fat is OK … get a life.