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Carole Cadwalladr is a British author. Her first novel, The Family Tree, was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Author's Club First Novel Award, theWaverton Good Read Award, and the Wales Book of the Year. It was also a Daily Mail Book Club pick and was dramatised as a five-part serial on BBC Radio 4.
She used to be a journalist and travel writer for The Daily Telegraph and is now a features writer and columnist on The Observer. She has twice been shortlisted in the British Press Awards.
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This book successfully employs an unusual and complicated structure
while balancing multiple storylines. How did you decide on this particular
mode of conveying the lives of the Monroes? How easy or difficult was it to
maintain the structure as you wrote the book?
I wish I could say that I had some grand design for the novel,
but I'd be lying. And the structure, the multiple plot lines, was something
that evolved along the way. I started out with two plots – the 1970s one and
the 1940s one. A few months in, I realized that they weren't hanging together
but instead of axing one of them (which would have been by far the most sensible
option), I ended up writing a third – set in the present day. Juggling these
was like undertaking a huge never-ending jigsaw puzzle. As soon as I shifted
around one segment, it impacted on all the others….and I spent months cutting
and pasting chapters, striking them out, jigging them around, cursing myself for
making life so complicated. A year or so into it, I developed intense pangs of
jealousy for "simple stories well told" sorts of books: one timeline,
one narrator, one perspective. But, at the end of the day, families and family
histories are ...
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