Will Rycroft

And it's clear that she gets a lot of enjoyment from stage managing the adventures of others.

Can you tell us a little bit more about, I suppose, that idea, that philosophy of getting through life?

Can you tell us a bit about what she means by that and why it's important for him to become less American?

Okay.

Not sexy.

Not sexy.

There is...

Being American is not all bad, though, in this novel.

There's a lovely moment where the character, Giacomo, referencing Oscar, who you mentioned earlier, says, he says that you should always have a young person or an American around because they believe the future will be better, which I think is a very nice attitude to have.

Is that...

I suppose, how you were treated when you were in Italy as a sort of an optimist.

put graffiti something on a wall and I think that there's I find my Italian friends are annoyed and charmed by that Oscar is a fantastic character and full of wisdom and there is a moment when he says to our protagonist don't be lazy in love

And at that moment, he immediately, I think, misinterprets what he means by that.

And as a reader, I was like, no, no, no, no, no, he doesn't mean that.

And he does eventually come to realise what is meant by that.

But it's such a brilliant line.

It's so simple and yet it means so much.

Is that, I suppose, the main journey for your protagonist as a character to understand what is meant by that?

Moving very swiftly on so that we don't spoil it for anybody.

As well as romantic love, I suppose that idea,