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Sadie Jones is the author of five novels, including The Outcast, winner of the Costa First Novel Award in Great Britain and a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; the enchanting, hard-hitting novel set on the island of Cyprus during the British occupation, Small Wars; her most successful, bestselling novel The Uninvited Guests, beloved of Ann Patchett and Jackie Winspear, among others; the romantic novel set in London's glamorous theatre world, Fallout; and the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel, The Snakes. Sadie Jones lives in London.
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You've had a fifteen year career as a screenwriter, did you find writing for the page a very different experience to writing for the screen?
When I began the book I thought that the process would be very different, but
many of the decisions and aims are the same: what is left out and what is left
in, and trying to tell a story so that it lives.
The Outcast is set in the 1950s, what made you choose this era as a
background for the book?
The decision to put the story in the 1950s was one of the earliest ones, along
with who Lewis was, and where it would be set. I needed to isolate Lewis
entirely—1950s Surrey seemed the obvious place to do it. Also, I have always
loved the fifties, and the films and books of that period.
Lewis is a very troubled yet charismatic young man, do you think you would
like him if you met him in real life?
That's a very hard question to answer, because I don't see Lewis from the
outside, so imagining meeting him is odd! I think I would like him, though, if
he wasn't in one of his entirely silent moods.
Some of the scenes in the book, particularly those between Gilbert and Lewis
are very poignant, did you find these upsetting to write?
I found a lot of the ...
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