Claire Nicholls

style that I have.

It's sort of like asking someone to describe their odour.

It's very hard.

This is the way it sort of comes out.

And I guess it's kind of the way I see the world.

Well, I don't know if being miserable is funny, but I think if you can't find the humour in difficult circumstances, then the misery will just be compounded.

You know, it's probably basically I've probably made a living out of my self-defence mechanism.

Yeah, good question.

I wanted to write about, there's a lot about loneliness in this book, and I wanted to write about that.

I also had written three books about fear.

My first book was about the fear of death.

The second one was about the fear of suffering.

And the third book was about sort of the fear of the opinions of other people.

And

And ultimately, I kind of realized that what I'm writing about essentially, or my beat, is just kind of like the human mind and why we behave the way that we do.

And I realized that there is this kind of explanatory gap between what we know and what we can't know about ourselves.

And another way to put it is the book's kind of about the opaque nature of self-knowledge.

And I decided to do that through the character of Russell Wilson, who's my character, and I wanted to do it over the course of one year.

So he's having a very bad, a very strange year.

The book begins in the middle of this quiet collapse.