![]() She writes about writers particularly well, whether that is the trio at the core of Five Tuesdays in Winter, or the quietly determined Casey, who is surrounded by cocksure male novelists who believe they are destined for greatness. “I did draw on my own emotional experiences of being a young writer, very broke and having no place to live,” she says. It sounds similar to the way Casey, her heroine in Writers & Lovers, keeps herself afloat. She then spent almost a decade moving across the US, trying to make ends meet working in bookshops, restaurants and schools before publishing her first novel in 1999. I was very attuned to when that was tipping and when to get out of there.”Ĭoping with all of this by becoming “pretty introverted and writing a lot” led her to study creative writing, before spending two years working as a teacher in Valencia. ![]() ![]() “You got a happy man at the beginning of the night, and a very angry man by the end. Her dad was a “terrible alcoholic”, she adds. There was just too much going on.” Five Tuesdays in Winter is King’s ‘superb’ first collection of short stories I had to become someone who did not make waves, whose needs and voice were extremely small. How much of an impact did her parents splitting up have on her? “Pretty huge. She says “broken, fragmented, disrupted families” are a theme of Five Tuesdays in Winter. Her parents divorced when she was 11 and as they began new relationships, she acquired 14 step-siblings, adding to the brother and sister she had. ![]()
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