I wanted to find a novel I liked, about the French Revolution. I couldn't, so I started making one.
She decided to write a contemporary novel Every Day Is Mother's Day purely to get published; A Place of Greater Safety emerged only when she contributed to a Guardian piece about writers' unpublished first novels.
Genre is a confining madness; it says nothing about how writers write or readers read, and everything about how publishers, retailers and commentators would like them to.
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