Daniel Hurst is the author of the novel The Doctor's Wife. His other books include Til Death Do Us Part. He is based in the UK.
Q: What inspired you to write The Doctor’s Wife, and how did you create your characters Fern and Drew Devlin?
A: Whilst visiting Bowness-on-Solway, a remote part of Northern England on the border with Scotland, I had the idea for a couple who moved to a place like that from the city. I wanted the husband to have a secret reason for why he decided to make them move there, and the wife to seem like she was the naïve partner, when actually she wasn’t.
Q: How would you describe the dynamic between them?
A: Both of them are extremely clever and calculating and both feel like they are always one step ahead of the other. They used to make the perfect couple, him with his upstanding job and her being the glamorous wife, but behind their perfect facade, secrets and shocks lurk…
Q: Did you know how the novel would end before you started writing it, or did you make many changes along the way?
A: I had a vague idea, but am always open to exploring new possibilities within the story as I write it. All I knew was that I wanted some twists and turns as the story unfolded, to keep the reader, and the characters, guessing!
Q: What do you hope readers take away from the story?
A: I hope they wrestle with the idea of whether Fern is a victim or not, and whether she deserves sympathy or disdain. She’s a very multifaceted character and it’s hard to say whether you will be on her side, or Drew’s!
Q: What are you working on now?
A: I am writing a few short stories at the moment, which I plan to release at the end of the year. They are short, standalone psychological thrillers and the only thing I can say is that all of the stories have a huge twist at the end!
Q: Anything else we should know?
A: I originally intended for The Doctor’s Wife to be a standalone book, but due to its popularity in the UK, where it reached #1 in the Amazon Kindle Store upon release, the story has continued and now spans four books, soon to be five. My readers can’t seem to get enough of Fern and Drew!
--Interview with Deborah Kalb
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