"I am the sort of writer who needs another form to tell me who I am and what has happened to me…I think all my novels are self-portraits, but there’s no one character who resolves me, or catalyses me, or is me."
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On writing in “‘What is a heart? You have an organ in your body and you have a symbol of love’” in The Guardian (2017 Apr 28)
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