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Albyn Leah Hall is the author of two novels: The Rhythm of the Road (published by St. Martin’s Press, January 2007; $24.95US/$31.00CAN; 0-312-35944-6) and Deliria, (published by Serpent’s Tail, 1994.) She is also a screenwriter; her screenplay, The Rose of Tralee, is currently in development. Albyn’s childhood was divided between New York and Los Angeles, but she has spent most of her adult life in London, where she works as both a writer and a psychotherapist.

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Research and the Road Novel

It’s hard to be original when you’re writing a road novel. One invariably thinks of truck drivers, country music, seedy motels, men drinking behind the wheel and the heady freedom of the great open highway. And my novel, the story of a truck driver who raises his daughter behind the wheel, doesn’t disappoint. It has speed freaks, god freaks, gun toters, cops and stalkers and lovely hitch-hikers and lonely, whiskey-swigging guitarists. Read

By: Albyn Leah Hall | 18/01/2007 | Fiction