Ask the Author: Laurie Lico Albanese
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Laurie Lico Albanese
Hi Charlie - I love this question, because it took a long time for me to discover how Isobel’s story ends in HESTER. There were other options that you can surely imagine, but I don’t want to put any plot spoilers here. The one thing I knew for sure was that Isobel would ultimately use her needle in a confrontation exactly as she does in the book. But her final decisions and her ultimate fate was determined by her character, very close to the end of my writing process.
I hope that’s a satisfactory non-plot-spoiler answer!
Thanks for writing. I am so happy you read, enjoyed, and reached out to me here.
- Laurie
I hope that’s a satisfactory non-plot-spoiler answer!
Thanks for writing. I am so happy you read, enjoyed, and reached out to me here.
- Laurie
Laurie Lico Albanese
Wow, what an intriguing question. I'm sure I'm not alone when I say I'd go to Hogwarts, and connect with my inner wizard! I'd do the sorting hat for real and not just on my laptop, and as long as I wasn't a Slitherin I'd stay for as long as I could -- or until my family missed me. Although, if I were a wizard maybe I'd know how to bend time like they do in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, so that I could be gone as long as I liked, and it would only be a few minutes in my real life!
Laurie Lico Albanese
What a great question, Hillary! Research is one of the best parts of my writing life because it gets me out and involved in the world.
For STOLEN BEAUTY I travelled to Vienna three times, where I walked in Adele Bloch-Bauer and Maria Altmann's footsteps, and imagined the same streets in the golden days of 1900 and the horrible days of WW2.
Probably the most surprising thing about my research was finding out how little Klimt wrote about...anything! He didn't keep a journal, and one of his only surviving quotes is "Anyone who wants to know anything about me as an artist — and this is the only thing that matters,should look attentively at my pictures and try to discern from them who I am and what I want.”
You can read about my trips to Vienna in the New York Times Sunday Travel section!
For STOLEN BEAUTY I travelled to Vienna three times, where I walked in Adele Bloch-Bauer and Maria Altmann's footsteps, and imagined the same streets in the golden days of 1900 and the horrible days of WW2.
Probably the most surprising thing about my research was finding out how little Klimt wrote about...anything! He didn't keep a journal, and one of his only surviving quotes is "Anyone who wants to know anything about me as an artist — and this is the only thing that matters,should look attentively at my pictures and try to discern from them who I am and what I want.”
You can read about my trips to Vienna in the New York Times Sunday Travel section!
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