Season 3 Episode 7: In Conversation with Jane Healey
Jane Healey is the author of The Animals at Lockwood Manor, which was recently announced as the winner of the Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown Award 2020. If you’re a fan of Wide Sargasso Sea, The Yellow Wallpaper, Jane Eyre, The Haunting of Hill House, and Rebecca, then The Animals at Lockwood Manor is definitely for you!
Here’s more from the publishers:
Thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright is tasked with the evacuation and safekeeping of the natural history museum’s collection of mammals. Once she and her exhibits arrive at Lockwood Manor, however, where they are to stay for the duration of the war, Hetty soon realizes that she’s taken on more than she’d bargained for.
Protecting her charges from the irascible Lord Lockwood and resentful servants is work enough, but when some of the animals go missing, and worse, Hetty begins to suspect someone – or something – is stalking her through the darkened corridors of the house.
As the disasters mount, Hetty finds herself falling under the spell of Lucy, Lord Lockwood’s beautiful but clearly haunted daughter. But why is Lucy so traumatized? Does she know something she’s not telling? And is there any truth to local rumours of ghosts and curses?
Jane kindly spoke to me more about her wonderful book and its characters, as well as her second novel, The Ophelia Girls, which is due out in July 2021. Oh, and of course, some of her favourite 2020 reads!
SHOW NOTES
Buy a copy of The Animals at Lockwood Manor
https://lighthousebookshop.com/products/9781529014174?_pos=1&_sid=339af3040&_ss=r
Follow Jane on Twitter (@Healey_Jane)
https://twitter.com/healey_jane
Follow Jane on Instagram (@jane_healey_)
https://www.instagram.com/jane_healey_/?hl=en
(Some of) Jane’s favourite reads of 2020 include:
The Ensemble (Aja Gabel)
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-ensemble/9780735214774
The Possessions (Sarah Flannery Murphy)
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-possessions/9781911344667
To thank Jane for her time, we donated to the Lighthouse Books Pay It Forward Scheme
https://lighthousebookshop.com/products/pay-it-forward-voucher