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By Oline H. Cogdill |
In British author Koomson’s
All My Lies Are True (Mobius, Mar.), Serena Gorringe and Poppy Carlisle return 30 years after killing their abusive teacher in 2010’s
The Ice Cream Girls.
What inspired you to write a sequel?
I’ve always said that I don’t do sequels my characters always go through so much, I didn’t see the need to put them through more. But the story of Poppy and Serena needed to be updated. Since I wrote it so much has changed in the law and society we seem to be talking about all aspects of abuse now, not just the physical stuff. We seemed to be much more clued up, so I started thinking about exploring if anything had truly changed in society in those interim 10 years. I only properly decided to write the story after I sat near a couple on a train who were having a very quiet disagreement. The way the man calmly took his partner apart with his words, while the rest of us sat around powerless because he wasn’t shouting