When I started thinking about my second novel, to be set in Bratislava, I knew I wanted to do things differently from the first time, when I set my novel in Japan.
I set off writing about Japan with barely a look back at my diaries, notes and photographs of my time there. I did this deliberately, because didn’t want to make the novel too autobiographical and I was worried that digging too much into my own records of those experiences might do that. If I one day decide to revise …