The Wages of Sin
I have to confess I always squirm when lovely people tell me I should put their fascinating family's story into a book. It's hard to tell them that for me writing novels doesn't quite work like that. In fact, though I've tried to put some of my own family's history into a novel, it's never come alive on the page – and if I found it unreadable, I could scarcely expect anyone else to be interested.
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