Neia Glynn

Biography

Currently a home educating mum in the London suburbs, I have a background in psychology and offender rehabilitation.

Smashwords Interview

What is the greatest joy of writing for you?
Writing contains my emotions. It lets me work through ideas and create characters who can be part of themes that are important to me, or which I want to explore. Without writing, mainly song lyrics, I don't think I'd have retained my sanity!!
What's the story behind your latest book?
A health visitor friend of mine told me that middle-class women are the most represented in suicide statistics. I sometimes thought it might be macabre writing 2 novels about suicide, but I figured that lots of people write about varying sorts of murderers so it would be fine. I also think that suicide is an under-discussed topic, so if people talked about The Tuesday Night Book Club, it might, in its own small way, add to the acceptability of mentioning this really important subject. Depression plays large in our society and I wanted to take a character through the vicissitudes of modern suburban life, looking at where her non-achievement of the standards she's been brought up to expect would lead her. I've been fascinated by the supernatural forever it seems, so i always have to have some element of the ghostly or other-worldly in my books. I was intrigued by the idea that people could unwittingly invite in harmful spirits, so Violet comes to realise that the demon of which she has visions, is sustaining her self-pity and enveigling her further and further into it. There needed to be lightness to the story, as a foil to the lows that Violet experiences, so we have her spirited daughter, her environmentally aware elderly neighbour and her holistically charged aunt.
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Books

The Expectation of Silence
You set the price! Words: 112,660. Language: British English. Published: November 16, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Urban
Living alone in the London suburbs, Andy is a fence and a failure. His only success will come as a result of his total downfall. Unused to insight, he is forced to examine who he is and why, by dint of a crime he thought he had left behind. The story of his grandmother's post-war hardship interweaves with his, to explain how he came to exist as he does, and through his worst crime, she is freed.
The Tuesday Night Book Club
You set the price! Words: 94,670. Language: British English. Published: November 13, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Urban
A London woman looks for assassins...men who will end her life. Five times they fail, but with curious benefits. Not for her. Violet listens to an online songstress to ease suburban sorrow, while her daughter is perplexing, her neighbour prays for her and her husband snores through her demon-envisioning nights. Despair and dubious attitudes to eating lead her to a near-disastrous final attempt.