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Tana French:
This is the second book that is centered around a group of friends who have turned each other into their family; who will do anything for each other. Does this inspiration for these close groups come from personal experience or is your draw to them more like how it is for Stephen (in the way that he envies it)?
Tana French
I'm very lucky: I've always had really good friends. I think when you're younger, in particular, when you're between around thirteen and say twenty-five - when you're striking out from your birth family, but you haven't yet started moving towards creating your new family - those groups of friends are crucially important and incredibly powerful. And I think it's strange that those relationships don't get written about as often as the other crucial ones in life (parent/child relationships, romantic love). They're powerful stuff, and, like any other powerful relationship, they can turn dangerous.
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Carrie Lallo
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Tana French:
A comment, rather than a question; One of the most powerful devices in your books is auditory description. I have never read an author whose descriptions of the sounds of places are so powerful and haunting. I work hard on visual descriptions when I write, but rarely consider how things sound. I adore your writing. Keep going!
Greg
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Tana French:
So many authors develop a character and then write a long string of books, from 3 to 30, based around the one character. But reading your books, each one is individual, with its own set of characters and a rather loose connection to the others. In many ways, this is very refreshing. Why do you prefer to write completely new story lines rather than revisiting established characters?
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