"I have a term I came up with called fusion fiction – that's what it felt like, with the absence of full stops, the long sentences. The form is very free-flowing and it allowed me to be inside the characters' heads and go all over the place – the past, the present. For me, there's always a level of experimentation – I'm not happy writing what we might call traditional novels."
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On what she calls her writing style in "Bernardine Evaristo: 'I want to put presence into absence'", The Guardian (27 April 2019).
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