Louise Doughty: ‘I don’t think I write thrillers – but other people seem to’

The author of Apple Tree Yard on the Indonesian roots of her new novel Black Water – and why she’s glad to see the back of ‘chicklit’Louise Doughty was born in the East Midlands in 1963. She took an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia and has written eight novels, including her latest, Black Water, which is published by Faber on 2 June.Black Water is your eighth novel, and is set in Bali, a place you’d never been to until a few years ago. Why are