Is That Where You Went to Write Your Book?

The idea of writing this book came to you actually when you're standing on that frozen lake, looking at the mansion. There was something about Berlin, I can't describe the energy, I was happy to be alive. It's a little bit like that wonderful scene in a Christmas carol where Alistair Stem starts dancing the day after he wakes up to find that he's still alive. And there's this joyousness, I felt it every day waking up in the city of Berlin.