Grief-stricken. Stricken Is Right; It Is As

I'm Not A Historian But I Can Get Interested - Obsessively Interested - With Any Aspect Of The Past, Whether It's Palaeontology Or Archaeology Or The Very Recent Past.

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.

There's A Fearful Term That's In Fashion At The Moment - Closure. People Apparently Believe It Is Desirable And Attainable.

It Seems To Me That Everything That Happens To Us Is A Disconcerting Mix Of Choice And Contingency.

We All Act As Hinges-fortuitous Links Between Other People.