"It was a huge learning curve, to be honest. I never pictured myself writing a novel, so when my husband suggested I take some time off work and do some writing, I thought Iāll have a go at some short stories. And then I discovered this story, and it just wouldnāt fit within the form of the short story, so I enrolled in a fiction course ā I had joined it for short stories, though it was generally for beginning fiction ā but I had to figure this out a lot quicker than the course offered, so alongside that I bought about thirty books on āhow toā, and how other authors have done it, and really threw myself into figuring out the structure of a novel. With poetry you canāt just ādip inā ā the poems are a complete little story on their own, they are like little starbursts. But this story took two years, and I couldnāt write poetry that whole time, because it just felt like a completely different discipline. What I did learn was to try and bring the poetry through with me, so I still felt like a poet writing this book. So in a way I think Iāve been able to have the best of both worlds."
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