![]() ![]() As a writer you wait around for inspiration this book is about what happens when a character taps a writer on the shoulder and calls her into being it's about the character creating a novelist. Is the fictional author Ruth's discovery of the diary a metaphor for how a story is born? Nao's diary is described as a "message in a bottle". When you see buildings collapse like that it shakes your entire notion of what time and space are. ![]() Like 9/11, the tsunami was a deeply disturbing event – I started thinking about things such as the ephemeral nature of being. Ruth is a sort of avatar, which allowed me to respond to events in both a serious and playful way. I reached a point where I thought I couldn't get any further and submitted it to my editor thinking she could help me. The heroine, Nao, knew that she was writing for a reader but didn't know who that reader was, and neither did I – so I wrote the book four or five times with different readers in mind. I started writing this book in 2006, five years before the tsunami. ![]()
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