There young Nora loved to watch, over and over, the fanciful and romantic spectacles of such popular Hollywood movies as
Peter Pan and
The King and I. These movies fueled her imagination and sparked the notion that a writing career was her destiny. "There were always books all over the house," Roberts told Alec Foege in a 1999
Publishers Weekly interviewer. "And my dad was a real Irish storyteller."
Despite parental objections, fresh out of high school in 1968 Roberts married her childhood sweetheart. The couple moved to rural Keedysville, Maryland, and promptly had two sons: Daniel and Jason. "I became a kind of earth mother," Roberts told Alec Foege. She made herself adept at baking, canning, sewing, embroidery, and growing vegetables. "I could have needlepointed a car," she quipped to Judy Quinn of Publishers Weekly. However, Roberts's marriage was not a happy one, and so she began seeking a creative outlet for her emotions and energies. Foul weather provided her with the opportunity and the impetus to begin writing.
In February of 1979 a raging blizzard closed the area schools and kept Roberts housebound, snowed in with her two young sons for more than a week.
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