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- Life
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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.
- Doing
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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.
- Better
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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.
- Difficult
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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
Even professional, paid carers aren't always models of saintly behaviour - and they know they can knock off at the end of their shift to go home, take an uninterrupted shower, and have a normal conversation with someone.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations.
- Bridge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the limelight. Many times in my life, I was conscious of embarrassing her with my carrying on.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a fastidious and orderly homemaker. I was the messy but creative type. I picture her following behind me through life with a damp rag and an air of exasperation.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly low flame.
- Dreading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Caring burns a lot of fuel - psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied, and the toll caring takes is well documented. It's called carer burn-out.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dementia is quite unlike cancer or heart disease or any of those other conditions where you bargain with God for a cure or even just a bit more time.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you.
- Legs
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband is leaving me. No dramas, no slammed doors - well, OK, a few slammed doors - and no suitcase in the hall, but there is another woman involved. Her name is Dementia.
- Nov 07, 2020
None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my children were young, one of the treats promised by their grandparents was a ride in Grandad's car.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.
- Climb
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to see my grandchildren climb trees, not stand under them. I'd like to see them learn to make bread and brown it over a fire using my toasting fork.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being eye candy always was a short-term career, and here's the reason. The world finds young women more attractive than old women because youthfulness signals fertility.
- Good Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
As one ages, eventually, no matter what regime you've followed, no matter how fiercely you've fought the fight, good health becomes harder to maintain. It may disappear overnight or simply dwindle, but with every year that passes, the odds shorten.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl in those post-war years when things were really pretty grim. It wasn't like that in America, which was real boom time.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.
- Dust
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- Nov 07, 2020
My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020