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'An electric thrill that is totally addictive.'

28 July 2014

'I'm amazingly fortunate to have a chance to write a second book that people will be interested in reading because they liked the first. It would be awfully pessimistic if an author with enthusiastic potential readers sat around in anguish...

The book has your chromosomes all the way through it, you feel squeamish about someone critiquing your inner life...
The great enemy of creative production is the internet...

80 percent of the time the work isn't that scintillating, but you become addicted to those moments when you feel like it's come alive. That gives me an electric thrill that is totally addictive.'

Tom Rachman, author of The Imperfectionists and The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, in the Evening Standard