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Robin Farrar Maass | 20 Questions: THE WALLED GARDEN
Author Guest / May 20, 2022

Robin Farrar Maass:  Thank you so much for having me at Fresh Fiction today!     What’s the title of your latest release? THE WALLED GARDEN   What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? When she arrives in England hoping to solve a literary mystery and finish her dissertation, Lucy Silver finds romance and uncovers long-buried secrets that have the power to change her life and the lives of all her new friends.   How did you decide where your book was going to take place? After growing up in a small town, reading Agatha Christie and Jane Austen, I got on a plane for the first time in my life when I was 22 and went to the UK. I fell completely in love with England, especially Oxford, and I knew I wanted to set a book there.   Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Yes, absolutely! She’d be a ton of fun—I’d never know what she might do next!   What are three words that describe your hero? Direct, honest, passionate.   What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned a lot about the Victorian Language of Flowers, a system where…