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• I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between…
• I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
• Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
• As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
• As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to…
• But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because…
• But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context…
• Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and…
• I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've…
• I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated…
• I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative…
• Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she…

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