THE RANDOM 19
The Random 19 with worldfamous novelist Tracy Chevalier. Tracy Chevalier FRSL is an author of 10 novels, perhaps best known for the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring, a timeless modern classic that became an international bestseller with over five million copies sold around the world.
Tracy is a Trustee of the Dorset Museum and the British Library, an Ambassador for the Woodland Trust, and a Patron of the Dorchester Literary Festival and the Lyme Regis Museum. Tracy and her husband divide their time between London and the Piddle Valley.
1. What’s your relationship with the Blackmore Vale (the area, not us!)? We’ve had a cottage in the Piddle Valley since 2004. Since July 2020 we’ve lived here full time. It’s a better place to be in a pandemic. 2. What was the last song you sang out loud in your car? American Pie by Don McLean; I was coming back from the supermarket in Sherborne. 3. Last movie you watched? Would you recommend it? My Octopus Teacher, a documentary about a diver’s
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relationship with an octopus he sees every day. It’s very moving. 4. It’s Friday night - you have the house to yourself, and no work is allowed. What are you going to do? A big G&T, tortilla chips and some trash telly!
equipped with a magical power source, a phone and a laptop)? • A guitar - so that I can learn how to play. • A Good Pillow. Never unrestimate the power of a good pillow. • Moby Dick. Because it’s long, and I haven’t read it.
5. If you were sent to an island for a year and could only bring three things, what would you bring (the island is already Always free - subscribe here
