I was born in Manchester and grew up in Rawtenstall in Lancashire, the daughter of a doctor and a primary school teacher, the youngest of three girls. We lived in a big house, over the surgeries and ‘home’ really was a hive of activity: there was always a buzz-plenty of things going on, plenty of chatter and lots of listening to music practice and records. Living with the surgeries in the basement of course meant that there was a lot of life on the doorstep. The phone rang a lot and being ‘on call’ before mobile phones meant a very different way of managing things. Both our parents were busy but always had time for us.’My growing up with two of the dearest sisters, has been a central influence on my life and I always loved writing essays, and used to keep a five year diary.

I think we all benefited from a family way of playing with words seeing and hearing their different meanings, or exaggerating their sounds. Later on in my life, I remember actively being encouraging to write, by my father saying:
‘I know you can do it, you’ve got our quirky way of turning a phrase, that makes folk think a bit more: I see it working with your psychotherapy, it’ll flow with your writing!’

Writing with a pen name helped so much in the process of getting started! The ‘Le’ came from my grandmother. ‘Bon’ was from a significant person in my grandparent’s generation and Eva came both from working in the evening and from Eva Cassidy who I really loved to follow. So somehow Eva Le Bon happened… Bring down the Moon is not autobiographical although they do say there’s a story in all of us.