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We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

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I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.

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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

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You learn a lot, writing fiction.

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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

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Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.

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The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

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We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

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Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

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Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: March 17th, 1933

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