Andrew Sean Greer

Okay.

They find... Because a British accent is their standard English accent.

And so ours sounds sort of like a Swedish accent.

Like it's kind of amusing.

I'm not sure.

That feels like an invention on my part and an optimistic one.

But I do find that, I mean, there is a sort of feeling in Italy that nothing's going to change.

Our parliament is too big.

We've been through so many wars and we're always the same at the end of them.

But Americans seem to think...

it's gonna turn out better after this war, as we've seen.

And there's, that can really, it's the naivete of a still young nation making like bold moves the way an adolescent would, you know,

I think so because there's other sort of pendant remarks the Baronessa makes because don't be lazy in love could mean don't accept just whatever comes along or it could mean grab something as soon as you see it because it'll move along.

It just means be active.

It's not specific enough.

And I don't want to give away what it means too much, but there is a theme in the book about the possibilities in life and how to choose among them.

I didn't know.

I've written so many books that are about really romantic love and over the passage of time.

And I didn't know what I was writing when I wrote this one.

And I think I was delighted to discover that it was about friendship and old friendship and those bonds.