![]() ![]() It’s fiction, but London is where it happened. ![]() Is this a story you could have set in one of those cities? _ No, this is a London story. We have new and used copies available, in 4 editions - starting at 1.75. ![]() _You grew up in Dublin and now live in Edinburgh. Buy Hawthorn and Child by Keith Ridgway online at Alibris. I try to take the reader through that little maze without blundering through too many of the half-closed doors. In this story there are things going on which are hidden from the characters, sometimes by other characters and sometimes by the characters themselves. If it doesn’t sound too insane, I try to respect their privacy. Was it hard to figure out what you had to reveal and what should be hidden away? Did you get this right the first time round or was it a story that required much revision? _ I don’t revise very much - I just write incredibly slowly, worrying over it one sentence at a time. _The story often works through indirection and elision, though at other times is very direct. We want to tell ourselves and our days and our lives as stories, and these things are not stories. I was interested in writing about story itself really. The two detectives are in all of the stories, though often as minor characters. Though by choosing to write about policemen and the cases they are working on, and then by not providing the procedural or (usually) a resolution, I do end up subverting, or disappointing, expectations. ![]()
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