![]() In terms of subject matter, I seem to be interested in people in extreme situations-a young boy starving in the streets of London in the 1820s or a young man under pressure and at the edge of a breakdown in the 1980s. ![]() Much more straightforwardly, The Sensationist fragments and "defamiliarizes" the everyday experiences of living in a big modern city, using jump-cuts, elisions, and highly metaphorical language to stress the strangeness of so much that we take for granted. So The Quincunx at first appeals to the expectations the reader derives from his or her knowledge of Victorian fiction and social history, but then gradually undermines these expectations with its distinctively modernist elements-the irony, the moral neutrality, and the final impossibility of ever knowing the truth for sure. ![]() On the evidence of my first two novels I would suggest that what motivates me as a novelist is the idea of surprising the reader into a new perception of something. ![]()
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