Posts Tagged ‘We Couldn’t Leave Dinah’
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Book Genes
1August 5, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Every book has its own peculiar literary heritage, a kind of textual DNA that can be as hard to map as the Genome Project. I’m in danger of muddling my metaphors here, but I thought I’d write today about some of the book genes that have fed into That Burning Summer, books I first read or had read to me so long ago they were half-forgotten when I started writing this new novel. I was vaguely conscious of a few of these influences from the outset; others gradually dawned on me as I wrote, or have even been revealed since. keep reading
Category News | Tags: Bette Greene, book genes, Brookland, Dymchurch, Kipling, literary inspiration, Monica Edwards, Rewards and Fairies, Romney Marsh, That Burning Summer, We Couldn't Leave Dinah
