‘I have kept on returning to these stories, sometimes by accident. In my fifties I led an expedition round Spitsbergen, home of the Snow Queen; life returning to fairy tales.’
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‘In the supermarket, in the video rental store, in McDonalds, schoolchildren would call out my name and say hello. It was very strange to feel so visible and conspicuous yet at the same time so culturally dislocated. ‘