Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

Historical tends to be my bailiwick.

I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I love the setting.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.

I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices.

[ The Nightingale ]ended up being a huge undertaking - a daunting amount of research on a subject that many people know intimately, a country I had not yet been to when I first started planning the book, an entire war.