In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.
It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
