A review in the FT from the beginning of this year referred to it as by far your saddest book. Do you feel it as a sad novel? And does it seem to you a sad object now? I think all of my novels are sad novels. But I don't know if I look at the shards of the sad novel as much as I look at it as a wistful one in a way, and also slightly scary and at times horrific.

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