Jo Baker
'Longbourn' was such fun to write! In a way the new book 'A Country Road, A Tree' is similar - it's a different period, different kind of story - but it's a similar kind of conversation with another writer's work. In this case, it's the story of what Samuel Beckett got up to during the Second World War (it is an amazing story, and I can say that in all honesty because I didn't make it up) and how it transformed him as a writer and a man. So... there are connections, though they may not be that obvious at first glance... And then I have just been commissioned to write a new book that riffs of an existing classic... not Austen, but similarly beloved. More news as it comes...
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Mary Lou
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Hi Jo, During your recent talk in McHughs, you mentioned that it is the choices they face which help bring fictional characters to life. Do you think you would be the same sort of writer if you hadn’t chosen the academic route you followed � or is your innate ability to observe and read people so well the more important influence?
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