I had written bits and pieces for Irish newspapers and Iain Hamilton advised me to write a novel and I actually began it during the first month after our arrival in London. That was The Country Girls.
Both my novels are about things I've done myself, or wish I'd done myself, or imagine I've done myself. When I'm actually writing, if I was consciously aware that anyone was ever going to read what I was writing I could never write a line.
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