Because what I’m writing is what I’m trying to make into a really authentic historical novel. So of course it’s intensely important to me, but at the same time I don’t ever make in my writing direct reference from the present day to now. I’m not just a daughter and a sister, but I also have a number of attachments to especially to women and young people who will change the future, I hope. But obviously it’s of intense interest to women and to mothers and grandmothers, because I’m that as well. So of course the #MeToo movement and the Time’s Up movement and the other discussions are very powerfully in my mind, as really they should be in anybody’s mind, male or female. I can’t write anything without being that person. Of course, my education and my reading now and my living in the world is exactly that of a woman of today. Did the current climate influence your writing in any way or are these things just something that are always on your mind? Right now we’re in this interesting time where power dynamics in today’s culture are changing, particularly with the #MeToo movement.
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