Will Eaves

Will Eaves' third novel, This is Paradise, is an exquisite story about an apparently ordinary family in 1970s Bath. It follows Don and Emily Allden and their four children through the highs and lows of raising a family. Thirty years later and living their own lives, the children meet at their mother's deathbed. In the end, even down-to-earth families like this one are never what they seem.

Here, Will Eaves talks to his editor Paul Baggaley about the novel's structure, its seventh main character after the family members, and his own experience of writing.