From her Q & A with Anna Metcalfe for the Financial Times:
What book changed your life?Read the complete Q & A.
Probably Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung, which I read before I was 11. It made me want to become a Jungian analyst.
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Who are your literary influences?
Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Penelope Fitzgerald, Ivan Turgenev, George Eliot.
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What book do you wish you’d written?
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald. She’s my hero. Her spare style is compelling and her humour is scintillating but never cruel. I’m a great believer in the late start and she was a late starter too.
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What novel would you give a child to introduce them to literature?
I’d give a teenager The Catcher in the Rye. I’ve given it to many disaffected young people and it has often worked.
--Marshal Zeringue