I’ve been much more open to sharing it with people, which is something I never could do with the first novel,” she said. “I felt much more assured of myself going into that I didn’t feel as I suppose, as I said, as precious about it. “I’m learning things and I don’t really know how to express things yet.”įurber noted a distinct difference between writing her first and second novels, primarily due to the fact she was more confident in herself as a writer after her first novel was published.
“It is, I think looking back on it, a very ‘first novel,’” she said. When she reflected back on this novel, Furber describes how much she still had to learn as a writer. “Even though the first novel is set in the 1940s, it is deeply autobiographical in many ways - or at least an imagined sense of autobiography,” she said. However, over the course of several years, this relationship will unravel.Īs Furber was writing “The Essence of an Hour,” she claims she felt a deep personal connection to its content and herself as a young writer. After publishing her first novel, “The Essence of an Hour,” in 2021, Susan Furber ‘14 is preparing to release her sequel on May 25.įurber’s second novel, “We Were Very Merry,” will continue the narrative of Lillie Carrigan as she attends college and meets the man she will eventually marry.
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