Tess Woods from the beautiful Indian Ocean shores of WA tells a great yarn and has a beautiful real life love story…
Tess, congratulations on your debut novel. It is a fabulous read and one lucky person will win a copy by just commenting below.
And thank you for letting my park my rig next to your veggie patch
Now… What’s that I see written on your ‘welcome mat’?
“Friends Always Welcome, Family by Invitation Only.”
If I looked in your refrigerator right now, what would I find?
Two fridges and more food than you could poke a stick at. I’m Egyptian. We eat big. There is enough food crammed in there to survive a zombie apocalypse. My hubby thinks the six large bags of mozzarella in there are overkill. I think “but what if we have 35 people show up unexpectedly and they all want toasted sandwiches?” Common Egyptian thought process…
Downsizing my life into a 24 ft caravan meant leaving lots of things behind in boxes. What (or who!!) would you have trouble leaving behind if you took off in a caravan?
The two big fridges…
Whose home would you like to visit in your van and why?
George Clooney’s chalet in Lake Como. I don’t really care about the chalet. Or Lake Como.
Do you REALLY have room at your house to park a fifth wheeler caravan and do you mind visitors? Oh, sorry, you don’t have to answer that one!! 🙂
Haha! No definitely do not have the room, but what the hell, come anyway, the neighbours have a huge drive.
Country curiosities…
My latest novel, Season of Shadow and Light, has a strong horse theme. (I love what horses can teach us). If you were an animal what would you be?
I would be my cat. My cat has the life one can only dream about.
You’re cooking and your food going up against the best cooks from the CWA (Country Women’s Association). What would be your winning dish?
This is on my bucket list, for real. I want to take my lemon pie to them and I want a ribbon. I want this very, very badly.
About you…
What is the hardest part of writing for you?
Research, I hate it. I know some authors love it, but my wish is to be able to just write whatever I want and have nobody question its validity! I so wish I could get away with that and not have to research AT ALL.
If someone was to write your biography, what do you think the title should be?
She’s Good with her Fingers! 🙂 (I’m a physio, I knit, I cross-stitch, I bake and I write.)
What question have you always wanted to be asked in an interview? How would you answer that question?
“How did you and your husband meet?”
I love my own love story with my hubby and I’ve always wanted an excuse to share it. So, yay, thanks for asking!!
I saw him for the first time standing over the photocopier in the library at university, and it was an instant phwoar moment for me. I thought he was the hottest guy I had seen on campus. I drooled from afar but I didn’t approach him. He was older than I was and we had no common classes and I didn’t see him again for a while. A few months later though, a friend of mine introduced him to me as her boyfriend. Doh! I saw him out and about socially for a while then and I continued to drool over him from afar. But they broke up and I didn’t see him again for two years. Then I was at a university ball and out of nowhere he appeared and said he remembered me from before and asked me to dance. After we had a dance, he told me I looked beautiful in my ball gown and invited me to have a drink. I declined, because I had a boyfriend at the time. Doh!! He disappeared again. Cut to two years later, once again, and I happened to see him by chance at a crowded bar in Geelong. We were both there for a mutual friend’s party. Quite literally across a crowded bar our eyes met. He walked over and his first words were “so did you lose the boyfriend?” We celebrate our twentieth wedding anniversary this year.
Favourite four…
Favourite place in Australia: Scarborough Beach, Perth at sunset.
Favourite holiday destination: Venice.
Favourite movie: Dirty Dancing
Favourite quote: “Throw me to the wolves and I shall return leader of the pack.”
If I said to you, “Just entertain me for five minutes, I’m not going to talk,” what would you do?
Belly Dance!
About: Love at First Flight
A family is threatened by an irresistible attraction in this compelling debut that will appeal to fans of Liane Moriarty and Anita Shreve.
Looking back on it now, I can see it was instant. The second we locked eyes. Boom. Just like that. The me I had spent a lifetime perfecting began its disintegration from that moment. And despite the carnage it brought to all our lives, I still don’t regret it.
What would you risk to be with the love of your life? And what if your soul mate is the one who will destroy you?
Mel is living the dream. She’s a successful GP, married to a charming anaesthetist and raising a beautiful family in their plush home in Perth. But when she boards a flight to Melbourne, she meets Matt and her picture perfect Stepford life unravels as she falls in love for the first time ever.
What begins as a flirty conversation between strangers quickly develops into a hot and obsessive affair with disastrous consequences neither Mel nor Matt could have ever seen coming. Mel’s dream life turns into her worst nightmare.
Love at First Flight will take everything you believe about what true love is and spin it on its head.
Links:
Author website: http://www.tesswoods.com.au/
About the author: Tess Woods
Tess Woods is a health professional who lives in Perth, Australia with one husband, two children, one dog and one cat who rules over all of them. Love at First Flight is her first novel for HarperCollins. When she isn’t working or being a personal assistant to her kids, Tess enjoys reading and all kinds of grannyish pleasures like knitting, baking, drinking tea, watching Downton Abbey and tending to the veggie patch.
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At home in Sydney, NSW, with… Georgia Madden – first-time author, journalist and frazzled mum-of-two.