6/11/2023 0 Comments Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell![]() ![]() It’s a brilliantly disarming end to a conversation about crafting a story intended to make readers uncomfortable. “Well, that’s very strange,” replied Catton, “because my husband’s American and I’ve been sharing bathwater with him for 15 years, and he’s never had a problem with it.” Catton then hung up the call and told her partner all about it, “and he got this funny look on his face and said, ‘I actually do find it disgusting, I just never wanted to offend you’.”Ĭatton then asks me, suddenly a little serious, if I share bathwater with my partner. To an American that’s super disgusting, even though I know it’s ecologically mindful’.” “She called me and said ‘I’m really sorry I’m hung up on this, but I find it disgusting that the Darvishes share bathwater. “I did have this one really funny interaction with my American editor,” she says with a grin. ![]() But the author of Birnam Wood is, apart from a persistent frog in the throat, still chirpy. So when I glance at the time and see we’ve been talking for an hour, I worry I’m stealing her sleep. It’s early here in Wellington and late where she is, in Cambridge, England. ![]() Books editor Claire Mabey speaks with the author of Birnam Wood about the influences behind her bestselling novel.Įleanor Catton warns me that after about 45 minutes the conversation might start to go downhill. ![]()
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