Islands of Mercy
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Source: Islands of Mercy
“And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.”
Source: Music & Silence
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Source: Restoration
Source: The Colour
Source: Merivel: A Man of His Time
“Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.”
Source: Music & Silence
Source: Islands of Mercy
Source: Islands of Mercy
Source: Merivel: A Man of His Time
Source: Restoration
“When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.”
Source: Sacred Country
“Life should be embraced like a lover.”
Source: The Swimming Pool Season
“Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers".”
“Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.”
“I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.”
“A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.”