Dear Booked Up Readers,
A lot of people ask me where the idea for Love, Aubrey came from. Many of them are worried that what happens to Aubrey in the story happened to me in real life. The book is entirely fiction, so nothing in the story actually happened to me or anyone else I know. There are little snippets of things that are from my life, of course, like my sisters secretly transporting their pet fish on trains…
When I had just finished Love, Aubrey and people were starting to ask where the story came from, I really thought it came from nowhere. I had needed to hand in something for my writing class and while I had several ideas floating around in my head, I was most captured by a “missing” character named Savannah and that my eleven-year-old narrator seemed to be on her own. I wrote from there to find out why Aubrey was alone, which is the same way you start to read the book today.
It’s an age-old question, isn’t it: where do stories come from? I think the real answer is not just nowhere but also everywhere. Even the most fantastic of fiction comes from somewhere, even if just from the wondering heart of its author. Only after I thought about it for a while did I realize that there are emotional reasons that I wrote Love, Aubrey: real, specific things in my life that sowed the seeds of the story in my mind. One is that I always worry about my family when they travel on the mountainous roads in Virginia. Two months before I started writing Love, Aubrey, my grandmother lost her sister, whom she had never lived without for even a day. I have two sisters and a brother myself, and I can’t even imagine what it would be like to lose them. I was concerned about my grandmother’s sadness and admired her strength, and, well…I think that is where Love, Aubrey really came from. While I thought I was just writing to write, the story is a mirror for my fears. Aubrey ended up teaching me that even if it’s true that sad and scary things can happen to us, we can learn to be okay again and keep going.
I hope that Love, Aubrey helps you, too, and I wish you well.
Love,
Suzanne
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hello I love this book I read this book and I enjoyed it so much I read it in a day
I love the story :) I loved how you were so creative!!! This book made me cry in a good way though. :)xx
Suzanne is the BEST WRITER EVER! Even though Jacqueline Wilson is my FAVE writer! :D
this book is romantic and sad
i really love 'love aubrey' because when i start i can't stop, it makes me feel different emotions like when aubrey's mum leaves her then aubrey goes to find her.
this book builds up emotions and feelings and gives you a special tingle inside . just by looking at the front cover i thought it was a brill book. but i was wrong it was awesome.
we loved this book. it made us cry and made us smile and laugh. it was one of the best books we've ever read thank you for writing it, it was lovely! suzanne your talent is at a very high standard. the detail you added made the story even better. i love the way that you changed the way it was written throughout the story. it has inspired both of us! i am going to read it again because it is so excellent and we will never get bored of it!!! xx
I Love it :) Its soo interesting and when i found out what happened to her dad and sister my eyes started to tear up. Love, Aubrey IS the best book i have ever read and it has got me into reading again because i wasn't very interested at first :) :) :)
Love, Aubrey is an amazing book! i am still reading it but i am looking forward to the end. Hopefully i am going to swap with my other friends that have '' The crowfield curse '' so i can see what that adventure is about. I have told my other friends that they should read it! Love, Aubrey will stay with me forever! :)
Love Aubrey is a really good book! I'm still reading it but i think it is a good story to read! Once I have finished the book i hope to swap with one of my friends to read a different book like ' the crowfield curse'. I would definitely recommend love aubrey!! =]
I love the book and I think it gets more interesting as you go along. Once you start reading it, you can't put it down.
Hi suzanne! i loved the book it's fab and amazing i would so like read it again! LOL! hope you ok and will soon write a new book! x x x x
We really enjoyed this book it's full of exciting things! We would read it again. It's a heartwarming story which we would recommend! x x
i think that your book was so good i recommended it to my mates
i thought that this book was amazing and that i would read it again
I chose Love Aubrey because of the name and blurb. What attracts you to read a book, the blurb?, the title? x What authors and books did you like when you was younger? x I can't wait to read Love Aubrey!!
how do i become an author when i grow up?
Wow, Love, Aubrey looks really deep but I'm going for Crowford Curse but when I've finished it I hope to swap with someone and read it as well as Takeshita Demons and The Dying Photo. What helps you think of ideas? I'd love to know because I have read all the blogs and have felt inspired after.
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