An Interview With: Laura Sheperd-Robinson
Longlisted for Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024 for The Square of Sevens.
Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2024, Laura Sheperd-Robinson, joins Harrogate International Festivals and host Joe Haddow, to talk about her book, The Square of Sevens.
This is your story, Red. You must tell it well.
A girl known only as Red, the daughter of a Cornish fortune-teller, travels with her father making a living predicting fortunes using the ancient method: the Square of Sevens. When her father suddenly dies, Red becomes the ward of a gentleman scholar.
Now raised as a lady amidst the Georgian splendour of Bath, her fortune-telling is a delight to high society. But she cannot ignore the questions that gnaw at her soul: who was her mother? How did she die? And who are the mysterious enemies her father was always terrified would find him?
A little more about the author…
Born in Bristol, Laura Shepherd-Robinson studied politics at the University of Bristol and Political Theory at the London School of Economics before embarking on a twenty-year career in the political arena. Having abandoned writing two novels in her spare time, she finally decided ‘that it would be more fun writing about liars, crooks and psychopaths than working with them,’ and quit to enrol on an MA in Creative Writing at City University.
