![]() ![]() ![]() She's much better these days, she says, but it's taken a great toll on her writing. "I did take to living inside my head and telling myself stories about characters I saw on television. ![]() It was hard to make friends and her education was disrupted, she says. She was the daughter of a Methodist minister, and when she was a child the family moved around as her father changed parishes. One understood the house very well and the other was trying to understand it through the other character."Ĭlarke has always had ideas for stories. "Around that time I had the idea for a story in which there was this huge house, and two characters, and seas in the house, and a rather weird relationship between these two characters. She fell in love with them, in particular The House of Asterion, which retells the legend of the Minotaur from the monster's point of view. ![]() But the inspiration goes back to the early 1980s, when she was working in publishing in London and attending evening classes on the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges. I wondered if Piranesi was inspired by the 18th-century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who created drawings and engravings of spectacular ancient Roman palaces and statues, real and imaginary.Ĭlarke has always loved his work. Lyme disease has left her with chronic fatigue. Later on she has to conserve her energy in case she gets exhausted. We are talking via Zoom, and it's early morning at Clarke's home in rural Derbyshire, the best time of day for her. ![]()
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