The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
From Penelope Lively
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.
I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.
We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.
I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.
You learn a lot, writing fiction.
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