ahead of time that the ending would pack such a punch? “No, I didn’t really,” she laughs. “I knew that [the couple] were going to be doomed. I saw the whole thing as a tragedy, so there was no way that there was a happy ending for anyone in this scenario. But I can’t say I clinically mapped it out with a great big wall full of Post-it notes or anything like that.”
PRIZE FIGHTER “It was genuinely a shock; I feel so happy!” says Candlish about her British Book Award win for Crime & Thriller Book of the Year. “It was really wonderful, after all these years, to suddenly be catapulted to some kind of glory and recognition.” Candlish says she was happy
to finally achieve the winning combination of right book, right time and right publisher. “I don’t think I ever really had it before,” she says. “I have had the right book and the right publisher, but maybe not at the right time; I have also had the wrong book and the wrong publisher at the wrong time—I have done them all!” Her next book, Those People,
is about to be published (due in bookshops on 11th June), and it also has an element of “property porn”. Candlish says: “I would describe it as suburban noir, and it’s about bad neighbours, which is a universal, unifying thing, and the potential for aggravation is immense. When I first started researching it, the stories I read and the things I was told would honestly be rejected by my editors as too fantastical.” Now Candlish is busily working
on another book, which is “slightly different” from the aforementioned two, and is a thriller. “This is the first time I’ve had three on the go. I went from being about to give up to working on three different projects at the same time, so I couldn’t have predicted this. I’m really loving it.”
FURTHER READING...
Louise Candlish’s 12th novel, Our House, was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2018. The thriller may also be coming to a screen near you: Red Planet Pictures has optioned TV rights.
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