Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews.
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Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
'Family Secrets' is thought provoking, well written, and remorselessly intelligent.
When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a novel.'
I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.
Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.
At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view.
Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
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