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Is There a Goldfish in Any Good Book?
I'm not particularly an animal lover, but I am persuaded that we are one of a species and we live amongst them. We understand their needs. And we have much to offer them if we treat them right. So I suppose it's that rather than I like cuddling them. You're also dealing with quite dark, difficult themes sometimes in your books. Does it make it... Are you partly using the animals as a way of kind of dealing with that horror that it's easier? Yes. It is how we can introduce this world out there, which is even more complex in terms of looking after it."