WATCH: Dawn comes back to Guernsey to do some work from home

But the best bit of her latest visit this week was when she saw the queue gathering for a book-signing for her latest novel Honey Bee, which came out six weeks ago.

‘The book-signing was great, I didn’t think anyone would come and I arrived to a queue which was very nice and reassuring,’ she said.

‘It’s odd to come back to Guernsey and do work stuff, it’s always just been home to me.

'I feel nervous, but it feels nice so maybe it will be a thing now.’

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The premise of the book is a love letter to female friendship, based in Guernsey.

It is the third book in her series about the characters Renee and Flo, who first appeared in her earlier works Paper Aeroplanes in 2013 and Goose from 2014.

‘I actually wrote this book ages ago, set in London, and got to the end of it and was like “What am I doing? I have this amazing location that is really special and beautiful, so why am I setting this in London?’’,’ she said.

‘I had to rewrite the whole thing and put them back in Guernsey and I’m really glad I did, it feels really lovely to have come from a place like this and write about it.’

The author has returned to the island for a book signing, two nights at St James for the Drunk Women Solving Crime podcast, and some time at 'home'.

After more than a decade living in Los Angeles, Ms O’Porter now lives in London with her husband and children, but returns to the island as much as possible, usually alone during term-time and with her children during school holidays.

After a cliff walk and returning to her childhood bedroom, the story ideas start coming to her, she said.

‘There’s something really magical about coming from a small place, especially a small place surrounded by water, it’s unusual, it’s beautiful and it’s dramatic,’ she said.

‘There’s sometimes a feeling when you live here that you’re stuck here, and other times you feel so lucky to be here, and that’s the course that you go through as a person who grew up on an island, so there’s loads to write about.

‘When you’re writing novels you can have your great characters, you can have your great story, but when the location itself becomes a character of its own.

'How can I miss out on that? It keeps on giving.

‘If you can imagine me sitting on either Fermain Bay or at Jerbourg Point, that’s where the magic happens.

'That’s where I was when I was coming up with the idea of Paper Aeroplanes. There’s nothing like the sea air and a gorgeous view and peace and quiet other than the odd seagull, that is going to give you some inspiration.’