Comments on: First Book Signing

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:18:08 +0000

Well done! Yes, it is. If you click on “Land of the Living” on the main page of the site, you’ll see a link to “Places”, which tells you where all the places that inspired me are located.

When I was at school we had a trip to Speke Hall nearly every year. Is it still like that? Dulworth’s school is also based on a real school in Liverpool – Belvedere (it used to be Belvedere School, but now I think it’s Belvedere Academy). For the main street in town I imagined Dale Street, but a bit smaller.

Do you live in Liverpool?

By: becky

becky — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:00:13 +0000

Your book is sooo cool . I take it to school all the time. Is the start of the book set in Liverpool because the story about lady Mary is similar to a one at Speke Hall (haunted place)? Thank you.

By: Lethonee

Lethonee — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:14:54 +0000

Well? Don’t keep us in suspense—How did it go? Did 2,000 fans leave the place in disarray (shambles, actually) like Jordan/Katie Price’s fans did at the WHSmith store at Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, on the 25th? Probably not—I’m sure your fans are too genteel.

Apropos of nothing—I read on Friday at BBC-online, in an article about Britain in the 1950’s, that mums gave their kids a teaspoon of malt and cod-liver oil everyday before they went off to school. What was the why of that?

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:06:03 +0000

Oh, hang on…you mean the American smarties, don’t you? In which case, yes they do, except that they taste of violets. They’re also gluten free and have no artificial colours or flavours, so the purple colour must come from actual violets.

Smarties in the UK are similar to M&Ms.

It’s all so complicated!

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:38:01 +0000

Only if you take them out of the packets! I usually leave them in the packets because it’s easier to monitor how many I eat. Each packet is 64 calories, which sounds great, until you realize that eating just one packet is just not possible. **sigh**

By: Brooke

Brooke — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:21:49 +0000

Parma violets look a lot like smarties.

By: Lethonee

Lethonee — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:20:37 +0000

That’s lovely news. I hope you can post pix on some site that I can access, since your Myspace and Facebook are set to private. // I get what you mean about the candy—in the last 3 weeks I’ve bought 4-40 oz bags (10 lbs!!) and ate them all!! Tomorrow I’m buying some that isn’t chocolate.