‘Neither will your choice of tea nor the type of milk you drink, nor the To-Do list chalked on the door, trigger in me any thoughts. I will live at your place in a vacuum of expectation. The one important thing your place should not contain, is you, ‘
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‘I fell into that pavilion with the intense relief of diving into sleep after a broken night with a newborn baby. I just sat down and wrote. ‘
Royal Literary Fund writers explore how their writing relates to the people around them, taking in everything from working with community groups to dealing with isolation.
Lesley Glaister speaks with Caroline Sanderson about the mystery of why some of her characters roar into life while others don’t; pays tribute to Hilary Mantel as a friend and mentor of her work; and argues that the heart of her fiction doesn’t only lie in darkness, but also in the triumph of the human spirit.