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The G is guilty of speculation. Surely it would be a better idea to ask the question "is this the book of the year" at the end of 2021? Sounds like a press release story, which is not to denigrate the effort needed to achieve this or the novel itself.
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Very interesting, thanks for posting.


I'd find that library a bit distracting and don't remember the seating being that great. But then again, I haven't written a best-seller (yet!).


In an interview elsewhere she says:


"I spent the months in Dulwich Library. It was one of the hottest summers on record. I stuck to the plastic seats, and ate lunch in the garden shade, swatting at wasps. In the afternoons, school students filed in, flirted across the tables, pretended to work."

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