Ask the Author: Frances Brand
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Frances Brand
It's a hard road but you have to stick at it.
Frances Brand
How indeed! It can go on for a long time.
Turn to something totally practical and mundane such as gardening or household issues. But best is to take the dogs out on the hill. It's amazing how fresh air and beautiful landscape clears the mind and triggers the imagination.
Turn to something totally practical and mundane such as gardening or household issues. But best is to take the dogs out on the hill. It's amazing how fresh air and beautiful landscape clears the mind and triggers the imagination.
Frances Brand
Began writing Thorns when the Bosnian civil war was happening and at that point nobody seemed to take much notice. It seemed so terrible that another genocide was underway in a country just a few hours away.
The writing wasn't going well and I put it to one side until a couple of years ago. Now hindsight and subsequent events such as the trials at the Hague and the ongoing hunt for bodies have put it into better perspective and made it a more rounded novel.
The writing wasn't going well and I put it to one side until a couple of years ago. Now hindsight and subsequent events such as the trials at the Hague and the ongoing hunt for bodies have put it into better perspective and made it a more rounded novel.
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