Lucy Scholes

There's so many ways you could read that.

And yet, because we only ever see it through her, I mean, of course, because we only ever see it through her point of view, that is the kind of unreliability of the narration.

Well, she doesn't know how to play by their rules.

I mean, I also find the idea of her innocence very interesting because...

She's obviously not as innocent, I mean, we're talking sexually innocent, as someone like Alex assumes she is.

Because there are vague references, very old ones, to her having had a sexual relationship before.

But yet at the same time, we sort of almost led to assume that maybe she hasn't.

Yes, and then this way... Also, don't you think that's fascinating?

On the very first page, she makes a point, she says, my name is Frances Hinton and I do not like to be called Fanny.

And yet Alex and James continually... Sorry, Alex and Nick call her Fanny all the time.

She puts up with these sort of odd... I don't know, it's so hard to trust her sometimes, but equally you don't feel that she's trying to... She's writing that afterwards, isn't she, as well?

Every novel she's written.

Yeah.

And inaction as well.

Yeah, it's all about that.

Exactly.

But it's the ordinary difficulties of life as well.

It's exactly those.

I'll have a go.

Other people do it.