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Charlotte Vassell | A Millennial Agatha Christie Vs Evelyn Waugh Satirical Whodunnit Police Procedural
Author Guest / November 17, 2023

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE OTHER HALF 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A millennial Agatha Christie vs Evelyn Waugh satirical whodunnit police procedural. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I lived in London, a city with some of the worst social inequality in the western world, for over a decade which made setting The Other Half there inevitable. The British class system is so starkly apparent in London compared to other parts of the country that I’ve lived in. Due to the built-up historical nature of the city, wealthy areas are patchworked next to poorer ones. You have council estates over the road from multi-million-pound town houses and even though these people are neighbors their paths barely ever cross. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? I would love to be friends with Caius, we could go to the farmers’ market together. I think I could tolerate Nell in small doses; we could go to the theatre or something where we wouldn’t actually have to talk to each other for too long. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Aspirational, charismatic and dogged…