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

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

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 do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

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

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

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.