I liked the idea of placing a person like that in a situation that was completely strange and unexplainable, and watching her use it to find new confidence and footing in herself while healing her past. The main character of Annie was raised in an environment that caused her to be unable to trust herself as an adult.
I wanted to explore a story in which there was a major conflict between what a woman feels or knows intuitively verses the proven facts that are presented to her. That phrase helped create the overall mood of the book and the feeling of Annie’s ennui that I think many of us have felt, even in a seemingly perfect life. Somewhere along the way, I came across the Welsh word Hiraeth, which is roughly translated to: A homesickness or longing to return to a home or place that you can’t return to, or never existed. I often thought it would make an interesting storyline to explore and had so many possibilities.Īnd then there was the idea of a woman losing a beloved house, and the way we tend to develop a kind of rosy recollection about past times and places in our lives. The story is often very much like a love letter to her “Yellow House” and the Catskills Mountain region which becomes a sort of living, breathing character in the book. It first began with an idea I had while driving with my young daughter on a rural, winding road one rainy day: “What if we were in an accident and she disappeared?” As a mother, the thought made me shiver. It was only when I wove them together that Annie’s story was born. It’s about the way we question and second-guess ourselves and the voice that lives inside us, begging to be heard. This is a story of intuition and ennui, of roads not travelled, and the all-encompassing love of a child.
Welcome, Kelley! How would you describe, A Day Like This?
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