Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
Kate AtkinsonIt wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.
Kate AtkinsonMy father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
Kate Atkinson