![]() ![]() I’m hoping 2018 will be the year we all wake up. Karen Joy Fowler: We appear to be living through a sixth mass extinction event and paying surprisingly little attention to it. What is the biggest problem humans face in 2018? Although I also do like television a great deal. Karen Joy Fowler: I expect it will come as no surprise if I say that reading is my favourite relaxation activity. There are so many great writers working today. Karen Joy Fowler: I couldn’t possibly say. But I will say that the life of an outstanding athlete often looks very hard to me. ![]() ![]() No one could ever have been mistaken about this. Karen Joy Fowler: I was never going to be a successful dancer. I can’t specify the ways in which being his daughter impacted the book, because the whole book is that impact.ĭo you ever think how your life might have gone had you been a successful dancer rather than a successful writer? Karen Joy Fowler: My father and his work are all over this novel. Your father was an animal behavioural scientist – how do your experiences with your father’s work shape this novel? Karen Joy Fowler: I wrote it in just the order you read it. ![]() This book has such a beautiful structure – did you write it in a linear way? Karen Joy Fowler: I’m fond of the snow scene – the three Cooke children playing in the snow. Beauty trends: have you given Botox a fair chance?ĭo you have a favourite chapter or moment in the book? ![]()
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