The writer was adopted at birth and came into a family where her nine-year-old brother had died six months before you were born. You've written about how for a long time you thought of yourself as a replacement child occupying this space once held for another child. Did that sense of being a replacement ever dissipate? "I would say still the sense of profound illegitimacy. Is with me constantly," she says.
Best known for her controversial novels featuring extreme situations and characters, A.M. Homes discusses her most recent book, The Unfolding, and her remarkable career authoring thirteen extraordinarily original books.