Natasha Lester is the international bestselling author of A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald, Her Mother’s Secret, The Paris Seamstress, The French Photographer, The Paris Secret and The Riviera House, and a former marketing executive for L’Oreal. Her novels have been translated into many different languages and are published all around the world.
Our conversations covers:
- Overland literary journal, i.e. the first place Natasha was published
- Winning the City of Freemantle T.A.G Hungerford Award for an unpublished manuscript
- How Natasha started out in contemporary fiction and why she moved to historical fiction
- Getting a new agent
- Writing process and what’s involved to release a book a year
- Portrayals of masculinity and femininity
- Juggling
- Publicity across the year and in multiple different countries
- Writing love stories
- The role that luck has played in her career
- The roller coaster of writing – the ups and downs
ID: headshot of a smiling white woman in a blue top. Behind her are the leaves of a tree.
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