"My protagonist, however, is not a philosopher.
My protagonist became Generic Old Man: crabby, computer illiterate, grieving for his dementia-addled wife.
My protagonist is sitting in an armchair, in one hand a cigarette and in the other a cup of cognac".
This is how it was for me, and my protagonist, Kyle, in The Sign of One.
She lives in Dhaka, while my protagonist and her family live in London's Tower Hamlets.
It seemed perfect to have my protagonist drive the most iconic vehicle of that decade.
The parents in the novel bear a very close resemblance to my real parents, and I did live in the same places where my protagonist lives.
I heard from one woman whose family was from Kishinev, where they worked, as does my protagonist, in a goose-down operation.
In the novel my protagonist, not a writer but a retired lawyer, has thought about what I'd been thinking about.
My protagonist, Alex Seymour, suffering a midlife crisis, installs video cameras in his house to secretly tape his own family.
At de Cantimpré's passing mention of her sisters, my protagonist began to take shape in my mind.
