That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

I promised to tell you how one falls in love.

The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.

There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.