Title: The Invention Of Sophie Carter
Publisher: Swoon Reads
Author: Samantha Hastings
Genre: Historical Romance, YA
Release Date: 14th July 2020
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Identical twin sisters take turns swapping places over
the course of a summer in order to pursue their secret ambitions in Samantha
Hastings’ Victorian YA romance.
1851. Bounced from one begrudging relative to
another their whole lives, orphaned identical twins Sophie and Mariah Carter
have always relied on each other for love and support, even though the sisters
couldn’t be more different.
Brash Sophie wants to be an inventor, and demure Mariah
wants to be an artist. Both long to visit London for the summer—Sophie to see
the Queen’s Great Exhibition and Mariah to study the world’s finest collection
of paintings. But when their cantankerous aunt answers their letter pleading
for a place to stay, she insists she only has time and room to spare for one of
them.
So, Mariah and Sophie hatch a clever scheme: They will
travel to London together and take turns playing the part of “Sophie”.
At first the plan runs like clockwork. But as the girls
avoid getting caught by increasingly narrow margins and two handsome
gentlemen—both of whom think they’re falling in love with the real Sophie
Carter—enter the equation, the sisters find they don’t have the situation quite
as under control as they thought.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Samantha
Hastings has degrees from Brigham Young University, the University of
Reading (Berkshire, England), and the University of North Texas. She met
her husband in a turkey sandwich line. They live in Salt Lake City,
Utah, where she spends most of her time reading, eating popcorn, and
chasing her kids.
She is the author of THE LAST WORD, THE INVENTION OF
SOPHIE CARTER, and A ROYAL CHRISTMAS QUANDARY.
How did you
come up with the title of The Invention of Sophie Carter? The working
title for the manuscript was, Turns. It referred to the sisters
switching places and to a clock tool (The "turns" was a small
bow-operated lathe used by clockmakers for furbishing parts and for working
gear blanks to size). My editor wanted to change it and we went through many
titles. My last suggestion was The Season of Invention and my editor’s
favorite was The Season of Sophie Carter. She mashed them together to
create: The Invention of Sophie Carter.
Where did you get your inspiration from for The Invention
Of Sophie Carter? Did you draw any inspiration from Parent Trap? Actually, the Parent Trap comparison is something that my publisher
added. I pitched it as a “twin swap” but there are definitely similarities to
the movie: humor, hi-jinks, and close calls.
Which Parent Trap film do you prefer? The 1961 version with Hayley Mills playing the twins? The 1998 version with
Lindsay Lohan playing the twins? My favorite is probably the 1961 version with Hayley Mills because I watched it
as a kid (as well as the two sequels). But I love in the 1998 version with
Lindsay Lohan, that one of the twins is British.
If The Invention of Sophie Carter was to be made into a film who would
you cast for which roles?
Sophie/Mariah
Carter: Ellie Bamber
Lord Charles
Bentley: Jeremy Irvine
Ethan Miller:
Logan Shroyer
Adaline
Penderton-Simpson: Mackenzie Foy
How long did it
take you to write The Invention of Sophie Carter? I wrote the first draft of The Invention of Sophie Carter in 2016. I revised
it in 2017. I rewrote the second half in 2018 and Swoon Reads bought it! Then the
story went under more revisions from my editor in 2019. And the final invention
comes out July 14, 2020.
What can we expect in the future from you? A
Royal Christmas Quandary comes out October 6, 2020. Lady Alexandrina Gailey
(Drina) is looking forward to a cozy Christmas holiday at Windsor Castle with
her best friend, Princess Alice, and her long-time crush, Lord George
Worthington. But nothing goes as planned. Alice has to pick a prince to marry
and George has lost one of the princes. Between mischief and mistletoe, can
Drina help her friend to the perfect proposal? And will she get her own
Christmas wish? When you spend Christmas in a castle, anything is possible.
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