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Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.

~Ann Cleeves

Topics: Always Beautiful Beautiful Place Been Bleak Dropped Got Just Loved Me Minute Out Place Sanctuary University Very Visited

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Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.

~Ann Cleeves

Topics: Celtic Far Influences More Scandinavian Than

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Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland.

~Ann Cleeves

Topics: British Closer Country Different Edinburgh Feels Might Most Norway Our Part Place Remote Than Unique Very

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I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about.

~Ann Cleeves

Topics: About Communities Drama Enjoy Everyone Exploring Form Guess Important Islands Nobody Privacy Secrets Small Talks Traditional Well Work Write I Write

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Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose.

~Ann Cleeves

Topics: Collaborative Many More Much Prose Television Than Ways

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'Shetland' is adapted from the novel 'Red Bones.' The book is based around an archaeological dig, and the mystery starts with the murder of the elderly woman who crofts the land where the dig is happening.

~Ann Cleeves

Topics: Adapted Around Based Bones Book Dig Elderly Happening Land Mystery Novel Red Starts Where Who Woman

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You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be prickly about the name: it's either Shetland or the Shetland Islands.

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Topics: About Call Either Islands Must Name Never Proud You

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The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but it's now a visitor centre and gallery; they run a webcam, so you can check on the puffins in advance.

~Ann Cleeves

Topics: Advance Best Centre Check End Gallery Head Lighthouse Now Place Run South Used Visitor Watching You

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I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts!

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Topics: Been Contacts Ever Lived Lots Seventies Short Since Useful Visiting While

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A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

~Ann Cleeves

Topics: Adaptation Audience Brings Each Experience Further Go Goes Her His Imagination Just Learn Let Go Loses Novelist Own Possession Prejudice Reader Soon Step Television Work Writer

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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