This is Not a Love Story


Hi, I’m Suki Fleet. Thank you so much for having me, Michael! My first published novel is titled ‘This is Not a Love Story’ and I guess that title is a bit of a misnomer in the sense that it is a love story from start to finish.

So why did I come up with that title?

Well, it all started with my initial premise for the story, which was a very vague Romeo and Juliet ish take on the story of two homeless boys living on the streets of London. And I mean vague, because apart from their names, the Romeo and Juliet part of the story didn’t really come in to until the ending. But it was all about the ending.

I’m sure many people are familiar with Shakespeare’s story of Romeo and Juliet. It’s a tragic love story and at the end Juliet drinks a potion that makes her appear dead, Romeo see her and thinks Juliet is actually dead and kills himself, Juliet wakes up sees Romeo dead and kills herself. Happy stuff huh?

Without giving too much away about my plot, I wanted to make a point of Romeo and Julian’s love story not ending in tragedy like that, so (bear with me and the way my brain works :P) that is where the title comes in…their story is not a love story like Romeo and Juliet’s. 🙂

Initially ‘This is Not a Love Story’ was a novella (Part One within the novel) and this is the storyline the title particularly refers to.


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