I also went to writing classes run by Barbara Joan Eyre. In Brum, as locals like to call it, I met the love of my life (we are still together), became a mum and forged a career. I came to Birmingham as a student, adored the city and lived there for two decades. What is your relationship with Birmingham and how much of your life have you spent there? In Bright Lies, teenage Emily hits rock bottom and she needs to change in order to survive. The city is infused with a can-do attitude, so it’s the ideal place someone to turn their lives around. There’s also an amazing sense of possibilities.
You’ll find canal-side cocktail bars, concrete towers and craftsmen making jewellery in Victorian workshops. It’s a city of contrasts: fascinating, friendly and fun. What makes Birmingham such a great setting for your stories?Įver heard the saying that Birmingham has more canals than Venice? Each reads well as a standalone story, but together, they’re a gripping riches to rags to riches saga. There are five books: The Bride’s Trail, The Vodka Trail, The Grass Trail, The Revenge Trail and The Final Trail. These fun, fast stories feature Birmingham too. If only she hadn’t tangled with gangsters when she was down on her luck…
I’ve also written a mystery thriller series about a glamorous young woman determined to make the world’s best vodka. It’s also a place with a thriving club scene, which proves to be her salvation.īright Lies is my darkest story ever. She runs away and ends up homeless in Digbeth, because that’s where her one-way coach ticket takes her. My psychological thriller Bright Liesis about a teenage girl plunged into a nightmarish situation. Please tell us a little about your latest book to be set in Birmingham. A A Abbott with her first in her Trail series, in the Jewellery Quarter Its attractive Victorian Jewellery Quarter and the creative Digbeth area. Which particular part of Birmingham do you most like to write about? Over to A A Abbott to explain why…īirmingham is a big city with many suburbs too. London and Bristol also feature in her stories, but Birmingham holds a very special place in her heart.
The Birmingham in her books is the British one, in the West Midlands of England – not to be confused with Birmingham, Michigan or Birmingham, Alabama! A A Abbott at the White Horse pub, which features in “The Vodka Trail”įor the penultimate post in my Travels with my Book series of guest authors, I’m delighted to welcome my good friend A A Abbott, who is so enthusiastic about her chosen destination of Birmingham, England that I reckon they should recruit her for the city’s tourist board!
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