"That's really what interests me - the gamut of emotions and actions that a family runs. "The whole family's involved," says Boyd. Its pages overflow with more than "mere" grandparents, including toddlers and 20-somethings. "I often wonder what people who publish when they're young find to write about, whereas I've had a life, and jobs, and relationships I've had experiences to plumb, rather than sitting in an ivory tower."Ī surprise best-seller in the U.K., where it sold more than 500,000 e-copies, Thursdays in the Park is set to be released in the U.S. "I'd been writing all along, but receiving loads of rejections," she told me. On the other hand, Boyd is proud of her age - 60 - and the circuitous but ultimately triumphant road she took to publication. Novelist Hilary Boyd, courtesy of WOMANHOME Magazine by Liz McAulay
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