Jill Hart: I love to read humor, but this one actually made me laugh out loud.
Claire Allan: It’s great when a book can do that. The first time I read Marian Keyes Rachel’s Holiday I was on a ferry between Ireland and Wales and I just kept laughing out loud and I’m sure people thought I was completely lit. It’s fantastic when a book just touches you like that.
Jill Hart: I have to admit that I’m an avid reader of your blog as well. I think I started reading that before I got ahold of your book. Your blog is open and honest (and hilarious). You talk about being a writer and a mom.
Claire Allan: My son, Joseph, is an absolute dream. He’s fantastic and he makes me laugh so much. I think boys tend to be really affectionate more so than girls. I have a six year old niece and she is really canny the way she operates but Joseph is so affectionate and loving. It’s great. I love him to pieces.
Jill Hart: So, what is next for you on the writing front? I know you have another book on the way - I don’t know how much you can tell us.
Claire Allan: I have another book due out in Ireland in September. It’s called Blue Line Blues. Basically, it’s two best friends and their story of running side by side parallel. One of them has an unplanned pregnancy. The other, her best friend, is a mite and has fertility issues and can’t get pregnant. So, it’s how their stories progress and the different feelings towards one another. I spoke to quite a few women who have fertility problems to make sure it was absolutely honest as it could be but again with an awful lot of humor in it.
It’s just a very real story essentially about friendship and about believing in yourself as a parent and accepting yourself whether or not you can be a parent, and whether or not your relationship to your mate can survive. There are lots of things in it and I’m really, really excited about this book, actually.
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