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Jenn Ashworth on writing fiction & non-fiction

The Writing Life

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Is There a Relationship Between Laurie and Mark?

Laurie is a cleaner working at the university. She's had this horrible shock of her partner leaving. And she senses this presence that may or may not be a ghost, and it's a first person novel. The all of these kind of uncomfortable and pleasant and banal things that Laurie does, it's very up close and personal with her throughout. But I wondered how you arrived at her voice and specifically as well, how, how did Laurie is a character kind of impact on the structure? Is he say that order of events? That's not all so interesting.

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