Georgina Morley
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And the ending is just extraordinary.
You're going to write a palimpsest of the first book, aren't you?
You have literally erased it.
Chatwin had a point.
Because I know, I mean, I've been an editor for 30 years and books are longer and they're too long.
There's only so much you can cut as an editor.
No, he never was.
It's one of the only books I actually made marginal notes in since I stopped being a student because I was so angry.
The idea of suing somebody for something that is essentially, to nip something that is essentially a fiction.
The whole thing was demented.
That's very true.
I completely agree with you, John.
Well, you think also, particularly with the early novels, that you're getting a comedy of manners, and you are.
That's absolutely what you're getting, except you're not.
There's something evanescent and yet not evanescent and transcendent about them, even in those early books, which are about people failing, mostly.