Joanna Cannon and I have been Facebook and Twitter chums for a long time now and I have seen her writing go from insightful and moving blog posts written between shifts as a doctor in a hospital psychiatric unit to where she is now – poised on the verge of what I’m convinced is going to be a huge success when her first novel, The Trouble With Goats and Sheep, is published in January.
I’m not going to say anything about the plot, but her 10 year old detectives, Grace and Tilly, are brilliantly drawn and I love the way that she creates characters – you can see that this is a writer who spends her life observing and picking up on cues that most would miss.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to add Joanna to my list of author interviews around publication, but even if I don’t, I’m sure I’ll be back to rave about this book again.
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