Sophia Lambton
Author Interview - Sophia Lambton
Author of The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 1
The first instalment in a series centred on twin sisters Anneliese and Isabel: passion-pursuant heroines perturbed by pains, obsessions (obviously each other) and themselves.
Author I draw inspiration from: Vladimir Nabokov, Marcel Proust, Stefan Zweig, Ivan Turgenev
Favorite place to read a book: On my couch.
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Mrs. C from Stefan Zweig's "24 Hours in the Life of a Woman".
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: When I figured there was something that I needed to create with all these stories in my head.
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: Hardback, paperback and ebook.
The last book I read: Helen Fisher's "Why Him? Why Her?"
Pen & paper or computer: Computer (sorry!)
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: The book characters I like are too weird for me to consider real friendships with them... I could answer this question if it were tv!
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: An actress in another life.
Favorite decade in fashion history: Either the fifties or the eighties (20th century).
Place I’d most like to travel: Latin America
My signature drink: Peach iced tea
Favorite artist: Does this question mean painters? If it does, Botticelli. If it means music, there are way too many for me to even begin here. I'm old school, and into classical or Frank Sinatra.
Number one on my bucket list: Travel far.