The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

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Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which...

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which...

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore...

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore...

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't...

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't...

I think writers are very anxious.

I think writers are very anxious.

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour...

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour...

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite...

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite...

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind...

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind...

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting...

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting...

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and...

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and...

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was...

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was...

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear...

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear...

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at -...

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at -...

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree...

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree...