You Say You’re Sure? Sure That You’re

And I'm A Hailsham Student - Which Is Enough By Itself Sometimes To Get People's Backs Up.

There's Still A Part Of Me That Thinks I Have To Write A Really Good Novel. I'm Not Trying To Say I'm Not Happy With The Novels I've Written In The Past. But It Always Feels To Me Like There's Another One That I Have To Write That Will Really Say What I Want To Say, And Really Paint This World That I Can See Hazily In My Head.

People Were Incredibly Kind To Our Family And Went Out Of Their Way To Help.

I Can See,’ Miss Emily Said, ‘that It Might Look As Though You Were Simply Pawns In A Game. It Can Certainly Be Looked At Like That. But Think Of It. You Were Lucky Pawns. There Was A Certain Climate And Now It’s Gone. You Have To Accept That Sometimes That’s How Things Happen In The World. People’s Opinions, Their Feelings, They Go One Way, Then The Other. It Just So Happens You Grew Up At A Certain Point In This Process.’ ‘it Might Be Just Some Trend That Came And Went,’ I Said. ‘but For Us, It’s Our Life.

You Could Say I'd Rewritten The Same Novel Three Times And I Thought I Had To Move On. The Success Of The Book, And Then The Movie, Had By Then Also Created A Commercial Expectation And I Remember Touring America And Seeing People In The Audiences Who I Thought Might Not Want To Read The Books I Wanted To Write Next. My Constituency Had Become Broader, But More Mysterious To Me.