A LOCAL writer’s second book, released today, is more than a page turner.
Butler’s Sara Foster wrote the suspense mystery novel Beneath the Shadows to keep readers guessing until the end and complemented it with online extras.
“It is meant to be a page turner,” Foster said.
“You are just not sure where it’s going until the reveal happens.”
On publisher Random House’s website, more of the story unfolds in a short piece about one of the characters, and video clips of the book’s Yorkshire setting and the author.
The book itself follows a London woman’s return to the cottage where her husband disappeared a year earlier and her search for answers on the Yorkshire Moors.
“The Yorkshire Moors are almost a character in themselves,” Foster said.
She started writing the book in 2001, left it for a few years, before working intensely on it last year following the success of her first novel, Come Back to Me.
After studying, she went to London and worked as a book editor, which she has continued freelance over the past 10 years.
Foster said “taking apart other people’s work” helped tremendously when it came to writing her own stories.
“I always have written – it’s always been a part of me,” she said.
Mother to a 20-month-old girl, she said finding time to write when every day was different, and her daughter often wanted her attention “now”, had been hard work.
She has already started work on a couple of new pieces, one of which she plans to set mainly in WA, having lived here for six years.
To think or get inspiration, she often goes to Yanchep or the beach.
Foster will have a book signing for Beneath the Shadows at the Joondalup Library on March 1, from 6.30pm to 8pm.