![]() Reviews in the press have been terribly kind, so I have not yet had to deal with a bad one. Do you read your book reviews? How do you deal with bad or good ones? I stick doggedly at every idea until I get it to work. ![]() How many unpublished and half-finished books do you have? ![]() Does writing energize or exhaust you?īoth I feel happily wrecked after a few hours at the desk. In a shed in my back garden, but when it is very stormy I work at the kitchen table. Where do you get most of your writing and editing done? I was already 5ft 8in and felt like a giant in the tiny rooms. I visited Jane Austen’s house in Chawton, Hampshire when I was 14. What literary pilgrimages have you gone on? It seemed like such a grand put-down I was terribly impressed. One day at practice, we were giddy, and the choir master exclaimed that our ‘Danny Boy’ was diabolical. What was an early experience where you learned that language had power? ![]()
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