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![]() Simon Tolkien
![]() As a child, Simon adored his grandfather
If you're an aspiring author, it's not necessarily and advantage to have a grandfather who is one of the most revered novelists in the English Language.
Perhaps that's why Simon Tolkien spent two decades as a lawyer, before getting his first novel published this year.
It's a courtroom drama, packed with dramatic twists, involving the high profile murder trial of the wife of a (fictitious) government minister. It's rooted in every day reality and draws heavily on his experiences as a solicitor and a criminal barrister. He told Breakfast this morning: "I didn't start writing until I was 40 - it was one of those New Year's resolutions that worked." Simon's first book was rejected by several publishers - the Step Mother is his second attempt at novel writing.
In the past few years, Simon has had a well-publicised argument with his father over the film version of the Lord of the Rings. He feels this has fed into his first novel. "Fathers are in a strange position: they do not automatically bond with their children in the way that mothers do."
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