Post by lenmac on Feb 6, 2006 13:13:40 GMT -5
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I was looking for info on any books Jane might have written and I found this. She has written two books, the first is called The Longing, and the secound is called The Question.
I was looking at a interview she did when the Question came out at this suprised me:
Tell us a little bit more about The Question and the inspiration for the book.
Absolutely. The inspiration was in the newspaper cutting which actually appears in the book, and I can`t say much more or it`ll wreck the story! But once I`d got the original inspiration I began to play around with ideas. I knew I wanted to bring in another thread too, something that has interested me for a long time - how somebody can have a secret 'other' life for years and years and years and their partner actually know nothing about it. I used to think that it`s just not possible; if you lived closely with somebody you`d have to know, but it does happen surprisingly often and since writing the book a whole number of people have come to me with stories.
So I just found that very interesting, and I wanted to explore not only the obvious feelings of jealously and so on that you'd suffer, but the fact that a discovery like that would kind of pull the rug from under what could be 20 odd years of your life. The man or woman you thought you knew wasn`t really that person at all. So I had these two strands which I began to work together to form The Question.
It makes me want to read this book!
I was looking for info on any books Jane might have written and I found this. She has written two books, the first is called The Longing, and the secound is called The Question.
I was looking at a interview she did when the Question came out at this suprised me:
Tell us a little bit more about The Question and the inspiration for the book.
Absolutely. The inspiration was in the newspaper cutting which actually appears in the book, and I can`t say much more or it`ll wreck the story! But once I`d got the original inspiration I began to play around with ideas. I knew I wanted to bring in another thread too, something that has interested me for a long time - how somebody can have a secret 'other' life for years and years and years and their partner actually know nothing about it. I used to think that it`s just not possible; if you lived closely with somebody you`d have to know, but it does happen surprisingly often and since writing the book a whole number of people have come to me with stories.
So I just found that very interesting, and I wanted to explore not only the obvious feelings of jealously and so on that you'd suffer, but the fact that a discovery like that would kind of pull the rug from under what could be 20 odd years of your life. The man or woman you thought you knew wasn`t really that person at all. So I had these two strands which I began to work together to form The Question.
It makes me want to read this book!
