I have for years been haunted by the life and destiny of a close, very beautiful school friend...The idea that a whole life can be determined by a catastrophe that happens in early youth is both fascinating and tragic.
Because so much of this book was lived experience, I was following my own rule about narrating my own life: tell it in crisp, anecdotal form; don't make a saga out of it...then the novel may not need much redrafting. Two drafts nailed it here.
London in the 1960s is evoked with such intensity. What do those of us who weren't there get wrong about the era? I don't think you get it wrong at all. Many of us were selfish and wild, promiscuous and dangerously ambitious...what interested me about this story was to create a protagonist who isn't really part of this self-absorbed culture.
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