Goodreads asked Alan Garner:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Alan Garner Thailand is strange enough for me. People here are uncommonly kind. And even if you're poor here- you're rich! My mansion has 3 bedrooms, a huge game room, 5 types of granite floors from different parts of the world, a separate kitchen as Thai food is pungent- and it cost me all of $60,000 to build (would probably be 80+ today, but millions in Florida or California. We have the most wonderful woman who used to be homeless as our maid, and her salary is $300 a month, an average salary. She comes in at 6 am and leaves at 5 pm to go to her $80 a month apartment down the street. Also, this is the only country in the world where women literally don't care about age differences. They're taught to respect age. My darling wife is unusual in that she's almost my age- just 19 years younger. And Thailand is the most fun of any country I've even been to. The smiles you see all over are real.

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