Ex-Spice Girl tells Hay festival about tips from William Boyd and Jacqueline Wilson for children’s book
Geri Halliwell-Horner has revealed she took writing advice from the twice Booker prize-nominated novelist William Boyd and the bestselling children’s authorThe former Spice Girl said Boyd, the author of Any Human Heart, told her to think more about structure – “it’s like a spine to a body”, he said.
“I started sharing how I wanted to write and I gave her my first draft ,” the singer said. “I slightly cringe at what I gave her God bless her, she gave me her time, she gave me notes … there was no criticism, but it was encouraging.” Rosie Frost and the Falcon Queen is set during the reign of Henry VIII and follows its young heroine as she is sent to an island that is home to both a school for extraordinary teenagers and a sanctuary for endangered species. It is about “finding the courage you never knew you had”, Halliwell-Horner said.
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