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But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

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It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

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Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

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People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

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That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

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The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

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