Your book is full of delicious humour. Do friends know you as funny, or do you reserve that for your writing?
Oh gosh, I think you’d have to ask them! One of the things that surprised me when The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot was being read by people outside my immediate family was that they kept mentioning it being funny. I didn’t intentionally set out to write a funny book. Sometimes Lenni would come out with something that would make me smile (usually when talking to Arthur), but finding that people have found it funny has been a really nice surprise.
I’m blessed to be surrounded by entertaining friends and family, and I’m lucky to spend time around funny people through the improv scene in the West Midlands. Doing improv is like writing a story on a piece of paper that’s already on fire. By the time you’ve finished, the whole thing is gone for ever and you can never step back and see it as a whole. That felt almost wasteful at first, at first, but it’s taught me to jump into ‘without overthinking them so much’.
Marianne Cronin was born in 1990. She studied English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, before earning a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham. She now spends most of her time writing, with her newly adopted rescue cat sleeping under her desk. When she’s not writing, Marianne can be found performing improv in the West Midlands, where she lives. Her debut novel The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot is to be published around the world and is being adapted into a feature film by a major Hollywood studio.
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