In Old Age, You Realise That While

We All Act As Hinges-fortuitous Links Between Other People.

I Have Had To Empty Two Family Homes During The Last Few Years - First, The House That Had Been My Grandmothers Since 1923, And Then My Own Country Home, Which We Had Lived In For Over Twenty Years.

The Pleasure Of Writing Fiction Is That You Are Always Spotting Some New Approach, An Alternative Way Of Telling A Story And Manipulating Characters; The Novel Is Such A Wonderfully Flexible Form.

I Didn't Want It To Be A Book That Made Pronouncements.

Unless I Am A Part Of Everything I Am Nothing.