Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.

I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real.

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.