Writing nonfiction, editing nonfiction and talking about nonfiction all happen in the same rational part of your mind. What made you turn to fiction after a career in feminist and nonfiction writing? A Quiet Life is her first novel and follows the double life of a spy’s wife during the cold war. I’ll read anything that Zadie Smith, or Curtis Sittenfeld, or so many extraordinary women writers write. Related: How Cambridge spy Guy Burgess charmed the Observer’s man in MoscowInterestingly, your main character in A Quiet Life, Laura, is not a feminist.

Source: The Guardian June 12, 2016 09:01 UTC