Anna Metcalfe of the Financial Times put a few questions to the author, including:
Read the full Q & A.Who are your literary heroes?
Shirley Hazzard. Her book The Transit of Venus is one of the finest novels written in the English language. I also like Ian McEwan, Rose Tremain and Alice McDermott.
What book changed your life?
In my junior year in high school I read Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton and discovered the power of novels.
--Marshal Zeringue