About Senta Rich
Senta Rich began her career as an advertising copywriter while also writing radio plays and articles for magazines. She then moved into the world of writing for film and TV and has a feature film in development.
Senta has written two novels, Hotel 21 and The Single Neighbour. Published by Bloomsbury, both are available to buy in paperback – see links below.
Senta has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from Liverpool University. She has a strong background and interest in psychology with particular emphasis on Jungian psychology. She is originally from London but now lives in Dublin with her husband and son.
About The Single Neighbour
Tristan and Izzy are on the brink of marital breakdown. Sex has become less than perfunctory and distance shadows their interactions. The arrival of their new neighbour may just be their salvation: or, will she be their undoing?
Vivacious, enigmatic and enticing, Viv piques both Tristan and Izzy’s interest, her appearance in their lives offering them diversion from their faltering marriage and a window into the people they might be were it not for each other.
But as Viv becomes an ever-increasing presence in their lives, the couple are forced to confront the long-ignored truths about themselves, each other and their pasts that have been a silent, spectral presence between them for years. At this fork in their marriage, they will face the most difficult decision: to cleave together for the sake of their union, or to walk away.
A story about how the ripples in a relationship can become waves, The Single Neighbour holds a mirror up to the promise of domestic bliss, and asks whether an extinguished spark can ever be relit.
About Hotel 21
“The idea for Hotel 21 came to me when I was staying in a small hotel in Lisbon and I accidentally annoyed the hotel cleaner. She wanted to get in to clean the room and I kept asking her to come back later. When I finally left, she was standing outside, arms crossed, giving me a dirty look. I felt terrible. When I got back that night… my hairbrush was missing.
Looking back, I most likely lost it in transit but at the time, I was convinced it was her – a ‘revenge steal’ for annoying her earlier. I was immediately intrigued and excited by this woman.
Who was she? Did she take things from hotel rooms a lot? Did she ever get caught? It also made me think how she had taken some control over me, perhaps to feel like she was getting control back over her life.
Two days later I wrote the first 4000 words of Hotel 21.”
