The Cost of Living: A Story of a Woman Who Has Reconstructed Herself Through Piano Playing

I think to me, it made great psychological sense, the story that you're telling about her. She's an old-fashioned piano virtuoso and they are her shield because she has a composition. Her teacher Arthur Goldstein, 80, is a really wonderful character to write. I find it quite hard to separate from him, but he was also a tyrant. So in the cost of living, I call the really grim grey corridors of the narrators, a block of flats, the corridors of love. There's quite a strange language that I enjoy. You can say, I want to change the world, or you can say the world needs a new composition.