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which is warm, but still distant.

I think she also wanted guidance, that there are times in the book

where she thinks she should give up the labyrinth, but it's only the dream that's keeping her going, that it's too hard.

She doesn't know what to do.

She's looked at various designs.

She doesn't know what materials.

He does know what to do, but he's very gruff about telling her and very direct.

So, Angela, do you see this as a book of ideas?

Very definitely.

It's a book of ideas more than anything else.

And as I've said, I think it's

sets out the Jungian ideas.

It's also about parents and their relationships with children, loss of parents.

I'm also struck by the amount of violence in it.

We're told about the death of her mother by drowning, the father being hacked to death, her father's sister sends a postcard of a cathedral with a wrecked

chapel where all the the same statues have had their faces smashed off erica had a brutal love affair that left her with a broken nose and broken ribs daniel being bashed in prison yes it's got a lot it's a lot of violence in one in one story isn't it yes and there's the labyrinth itself a place where you don't actually get lost as in a maze you can't get lost

You have to, I suppose, let yourself go in it.

You have to trust the labyrinth that you'll be able to get out again.

Yes, I think that's definitely true and that's certainly what Jung said.

And Erica says in the book when the maze has been built but not entirely, she looks at it from her window from a distance and she's seeing the hole for the first time and she feels a shock of recognition.