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" I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. "

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" I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. "

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" I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. "

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" I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish. "

" I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education. "

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" My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies. "

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