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All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.

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I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

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Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the book. That doesn't happen with a play. Even performances are different every night.

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I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.

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When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when a novel goes wrong, but there is a kind of magic that can and should happen.

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I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.

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The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they don't confront it. That is often a dynamic from childhood onwards. As a teenager, you want to be independent and do slightly furtive things.

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I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period and reading its books and watching its films. I see it as a real treat.

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I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.

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I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Novelist

Born: July 21st, 1966

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