We wanted to set the story in an early medieval Scotland but we also wanted it to feel urgent and real, populated by characters we could connect with and understand.
It feels truly wild, populated with moose, lynx, roe deer and even the odd wolf.
The book is organized by topic — "Fault," "Favor," "Fear," "Feeling," "Felicity" — and populated by famous wits and critics and philosophers, men like Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Omar Khayyám, and Oscar Wilde.
Maximum ground motions registered at VIII (severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale in Christchurch, while strong shaking (MM VI) was felt in adjacent populated areas such as Rolleston and Lincoln.
And at any time of year, this densely populated city can feel crowded.
It had to feel, if not crowded, then thoroughly populated; its characters had to be from a wide range of backgrounds and homelands; and it had to be set in one particular street, because the geographical unit of city life is the street.
"New York does present that kind of epitome of that paradox between constant interaction and yet... you can be completely alone and feel completely lonely in a very populated space," the actress said of the filming location.
Anyone who's lived in a large city will understand the notion that it's probably easier to feel alone in the most densely populated place in the country than any remote Lake District hideaway.
It also felt notably under-populated, given that this was only a week or so after a splashy relaunch.
