About The Watcher
It’s 1949 when Netta’s father Max is released from a Siberian POW camp and returns to his home in occupied Germany. But he is not the man the little girl is expecting – the brave, handsome doctor her mother Erika told her stories of. Erika too struggles to reconcile this withdrawn, volatile figure with the husband she knew and loved before, and, as she strives to break through the wall Max has built around himself, Netta is both frightened and jealous of this interloper in the previously cozy household she shared with her mother and doting grandparents. Now, if family life isn’t tough enough, it is about to get even tougher, when a murder sparks a police investigation, which begins to unearth dark secrets they all hoped had been forgotten.
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About the Author
Monika Jephcott Thomas grew up in Dortmund Mengede, north-west Germany. She moved to the UK in 1966, enjoying a thirty year career in education before retraining as a therapist. Along with her partner Jeff she established the Academy of Play & Child Psychotherapy in order to support the twenty per cent of children who have emotional, behavioural, social and mental health problems by using play and the creative Arts. A founder member of Play Therapy UK, Jephcott Thomas was elected President of Play Therapy International in 2002. In 2016 her first book Fifteen Words was published. Website – http://monika-jephcott-thomas.com/
Q&A with Author, Monika Jephcott-Thomas
1. How did you get started as a writer?
After my parents death I looked through all their papers, letters , photos and documents they left behind and decided they would be a good foundation for a novel.
2. How many hours a day do you write?
I don’t write daily, as writing is my hobby and not my main job, which is training adults who work with children in play therapy to alleviate their emotional, behavioural and mental health problems and enable their potential. See www playtherapy.org.uk
3. What is your favorite under-appreciated novel?
Goethe’s Werther
4. What is your favorite childhood book?
Gulliver’s Travels
5. Do you have a special room or place that you prefer to write?
Yes, in our house in France looking out into nature.
6. How do you select the names of your characters?
In my novels they came from German characters that I thought would fit.
7. What is the most difficult part of being a writer?
Having the inspiration at the time when I need it.
8. What is your favorite/most valued work that you have written?
My autobiography, Under the Pear Tree.
Special thanks to Clink Street Publishing and to Author, Monika Jephcott-Thomas for being a special guest at librarianlaura.com today. I hope you enjoy Monika’s novels as much as I have!
Librarian Laura 