There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
From Penelope Lively
I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.
I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
I rather like getting away from fiction.
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