How to tackle it? I wanted to remove several characters completely. Which left me with a daunting task: The Big Rework. Maybe I had overshadowed the three people this book was actually about? After reading the original version of my first book, Whispers Through a Megaphone, she explained – with her usual blend of tact and kindness – that I had included many different characters, which was fine in itself, but I had given space to each of their stories. I have written three novels, and this ‘problem’ has been there from day one. And one of the joys of writing novels is the scope for inclusion – I can give anyone, or anything, a voice. These are the stories that interest me most. The quiet ones, the underdogs, the voiceless the dissenters, nonconformists or the scrappy, nervous, lost. I’ve always been drawn to outsiders – people at the edge of things, the margins.
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