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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.

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I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.

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I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

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Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.

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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.

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I rather like getting away from fiction.

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I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

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I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

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It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: March 17th, 1933

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