P.156 'I spent a happy few hours at the Concertgebouw as guest of conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt - I wandered around Amsterdam working out final details of this last chapter.'
P.93 'Prefiguring, I see now, Andrea in Saturday, the troublesome girl undergoing nerve surgery who decides to become a surgeon.' It comes when you haven't been in big landscapes for a while. P.77 'Wordsworth's The Prelude - good on that fear.
P.76 'Should have written: 2 notes the same, 2 steps up, 3 down - it could have been a nursery rhyme.' E.g., openly gay ministers in cabinet - Chris Smith et al. One achievement of Blair's first term was to make them harder to run. P.56 'In the dying months of John Major's premiership, such scandals (though not this) were 2 a penny. P.29 'Some said Peter Stothard, others Alan Rusbridger. Long exchange with Tim Garton Ash on this subject.' P.3 'They loved her? Or they "belonged" to her? If the second, then Lane's? Both. As that novel was being published, I was correcting the proofs for this - a luxury I don't think I'll ever repeat.'
Jaco published me in volume form (short stories) before the English edition was available.'įlyleaf 'This novel was written in the months immediately following the completion of Enduring Love. Title page 'Subtitle in first draft was "The Spoiler" - given to me by Annalena, then given back for her to use for her first novel.'īeneath dedication 'My Dutch publisher and his wife, my Amsterdam friends since 1973.
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