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- Nov 07, 2020
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wheels of publishing never slow down.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not so very long ago, certainly well into the Thirties, a lady companion was a normal feature of life for widows or lone spinsters.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word 'carer' makes me think of someone with a nylon overall and a long list of 'clients' to wash before she finishes her shift. A companion was something unique. A kind of live-in friend.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.
- Attributed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my particular sensibilities. I like formality and elegance, and I'm fundamentally conservative.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary American.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sundown is often the worst time of day for people with dementia. They can become restless and difficult.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020