Ask the Author: Anne Coates
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Anne Coates
The decision was really made for me as the first book, Dancers in the Wind, evolved from interviews with prostitutes and police in Kings Cross that I did for a national newspaper. I enjoy having a protagonist who has a lot of leeway as she is freelance and sees the investigations from a different perspective. :-)
Anne Coates
There is – it was a situation when I was about nine or ten and involved two other girls in out "club" and a man we met by the brook near my house...
Anne Coates
I really had to think about this question! There are lots of "odd couples" in fiction that I love - for instance the relationship/interplay between Miss Haversham and Pip in "Great Expectations". But for romantic couples I'd have to go for Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy in "Pride and Prejudice". The prefect "romantic" novel which has its characters jumping through hoops to marry for love as well as making a "good match".
Anne Coates
Maranda, thank you so, so much for your review!
The title derives from a verse from Dryden that is quoted in the prelims:
I can enjoy her while she’s kind:
But when she dances in the wind,
And shakes her wings and will not stay,
I puff the prostitute away.
The title derives from a verse from Dryden that is quoted in the prelims:
I can enjoy her while she’s kind:
But when she dances in the wind,
And shakes her wings and will not stay,
I puff the prostitute away.
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