Book & Author Details:
Love At First Flight by Tess Woods
Published by: HarperCollins
Publication date: April 1st 2015
Genres: Adult, Contemporary,
Synopsis:
Looking back on it now, I can
see it was instant. The second we locked eyes. Boom. Just like that.
The me I had spent a lifetime perfecting began its disintegration from
that moment. And despite the carnage it brought to all our lives, I
still don’t regret it.
What would you risk to be with the love of your life? And what if your soul mate is the one who will destroy you?
Mel is living the dream. She’s a successful GP, married to a charming anaesthetist and raising a beautiful family in their plush home in Perth. But when she boards a flight to Melbourne, she meets Matt and her picture perfect Stepford life unravels as she falls in love for the first time ever.
What begins as a flirty conversation between strangers quickly develops into a hot and obsessive affair with disastrous consequences neither Mel nor Matt could have ever seen coming. Mel’s dream life turns into her worst nightmare.
Love at First Flight will take everything you believe about what true love is and spin it on its head.
What would you risk to be with the love of your life? And what if your soul mate is the one who will destroy you?
Mel is living the dream. She’s a successful GP, married to a charming anaesthetist and raising a beautiful family in their plush home in Perth. But when she boards a flight to Melbourne, she meets Matt and her picture perfect Stepford life unravels as she falls in love for the first time ever.
What begins as a flirty conversation between strangers quickly develops into a hot and obsessive affair with disastrous consequences neither Mel nor Matt could have ever seen coming. Mel’s dream life turns into her worst nightmare.
Love at First Flight will take everything you believe about what true love is and spin it on its head.
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Q & A with the author:
What inspired
you to write Love at First Flight?
I've always
been inspired by the tragic love story, the story of great love that just can't
be. My favourite book The Bridges of Madison County stayed with me years after
reading it and played on my mind. Then I read Twilight and out of nowhere I had
to write my own book. Before this I had never entertained the idea of writing.
But the longing in Twilight and the knowing that the one you love is the one
that is dangerous for you resonated with me and I just had to write about that.
So with the themes of desire and danger, I wrote a book about a married mother,
because I wanted to write of what I know. I wanted to bring the great love
story into the world of the typical suburban mum who is chasing after kids,
working and running a home. I wanted her to have that Romeo and Juliet moment.
So I wrote 'Love at First Flight'.
How long did
Love at First Flight take to write?
The story was
written start to finish in six days. For real. But it was a mashed up piece of
drivel! It took eighteen months and five complete re-writes with the help of
two manuscript assessors who kept suggesting changes and sending it back to me
before I felt confident enough to send it to literary agents.
What do you
love the most about the main character in your book?
I love that
Mel is raw. She is openly vulnerable and tortured and she desperately needs
attention. I want to help her dig her way out of the hole she is in and help
her find inner peace and happiness.
Do you write
with a plan or do you see where the story takes you?
I wrote Love
at First Flight with no plan whatsoever. Often I would read over what I just
wrote and be surprised that the story had gone in a new direction that I would
never have expected. With the book I am writing now, Flat White with One, I am
working with a plan. I think I prefer winging it and seeing what happens.
Where is the
novel set and why did you choose to set it there?
The novel is
set in Perth and in Melbourne. These two Australian cities are where I have
lived for most of my life so I know them really well and could easily create
scenarios in recognisable places. I am parochial about Perth, especially our
stunning coast line, since moving here twelve years ago, so I was happy at the
excuse to gloat about it. Also, being inherently lazy when it comes to research,
setting the book in Perth and Melbourne, meant that I had much less research to
do!
What are your
(writing) plans for the future?
I’m just
about to get cracking on my second novel. Hopefully the ideas flow freely and I
have more books in me.
AUTHOR BIO:
Tess
Woods is a health professional who lives in Perth, Australia with one
husband, two children, one dog and one cat who rules over all of
them. Love at First Flight is her first novel. When she isn’t working or
being a personal assistant to her kids, Tess enjoys reading and all
kinds of grannyish pleasures like knitting, baking, drinking tea,
watching Downton Abbey and tending to the veggie patch.
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