Name Lizzie Lamb

Do you have any pets and have they influenced or been included in your writing?

Anyone who knows me from Facebook, will know that I am totally under the thumb – or, should that be claw, of my Hahn’s Macaw, Jasper. He’s so funny and interacts with us in a very human way – including mimicking our speech, how we laugh, cough and sneeze. He is very bossy and one of his favourite expressions is: Don’t be silly. He doesn’t so much ask for things as demands them. When I was writing Scotch on the Rocks, I really wanted to include a parrot which interacts with the hero and heroine in an amusing way. So I invented Pershing, a blue and yellow macaw belonging to the heroine’s left wing, Aunt Esme. In the novel, Pershing flew into Esme’s tent when she was a member of…