Summary
Tracy Chevalier, whose Girl with a Pearl Earring became a bestseller and a film, was inspired to write her latest novel by a visit to a dinosaur museum. There, she encountered the groundbreaking career of a remarkable Victorian woman
IT NEVER fails. Given a chance to buttonhole an author, nine out of ten readers inquire: where do you get your ideas? But where doesn't a writer get ideas?See the full content of this document
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There's Something About Mary
Tracy Chevalier - whose bestselling novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, became an equally popular film in 2003 - has found inspiration in everything from Vermeer's canvases or the colour blue, to London's atmospheric Highgate Cemetery. She tells me her latest book, Remarkable Creatures, was inspired by a trip to Dorchester's Dinosaur Museum with her ten-year-old son.
There, she first heard of Mary Anning (1799-1847), a fossil hunter in Lyme ...See the full content of this document
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