If truth be told, I have a bit of a crush on him. I think he’s a grounded, solitary man, with a deep respect for nature, and has a strong moral compass. Was there any particular character in the novel that you enjoyed writing the most? Many of my favourite twists in A Single Breath presented themselves as I started to inhabit the world of my characters. I know the key events and main twists that will happen, and how the novel will end – but inevitably, as you write, things change. I do a lot of planning before I begin writing. There are a lot of twists and turns in the novel, did these happen as you were writing or were they planned from the start? These two threads began to weave together, stitching themselves into the beginning of a story. I was intrigued by the idea of the unknowability of those closest to us, and thought how devastating it would be to find out the truth only when that person had gone.

Later on that year, I heard of a friend-of-a-friend who was leading a double life in order to hide a huge secret from their family. In 2011, I visited Tasmania for the first time and fell in love with its wild beauty and its remote shacks. The idea came from two very separate threads.

Where did you get the inspiration for A Single Breath?

A Single Breath by Lucy Clarke