I ask which you find most satisfying to write, short stories or a complete novel?
In your previous book, Lucky Girls, you have a depressed woman say, I thought of going to bed, but what I really wanted was to be inside the bed — inside the mattress, where it was warm and dense and silent, with the stuffing packed around my arms and legs.” Have you ever been depressed? I think you must have been to have written that.
What Would You Do in this Position?
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic