From her Q & A with Anna Metcalfe at the Financial Times:
What book changed your life?
The Bible shaped me; Virginia Woolf’s Orlando shaped my imagination; and Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities gave me the courage to write whatever I wanted.Read the complete Q & A.
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Who would you like to be stuck in a lift with?
Meryl Streep.
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What book do you wish you’d written?
Tom Jones. I love the bounce of the writing and I’m drawn to orphan stories.
--Marshal Zeringue