Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

I don't use real people for inspiration.

Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.

...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.

Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that.

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.