![]() ![]() It’s always partial, we never get it right, but we must keep revising. We must keep revising the story and bringing it up to date. I was saying, well that’s the whole point! That we continue to revise history. We can’t go back there and instead, we’re just creating narratives about it in our own time.’ One of the things he was asking me was ‘how can anyone write historical narratives? Because the past is over. It was really interesting to do something like that. I’ve mostly written short things, and I’ve just done a big questionnaire about my novel The Gathering Night, as someone wanted to interview me about writing about pre-history and about hunter-gatherers. Have you been writing this past year? How has the lockdown/coronavirus manifested itself in your writing? Last week I sat down for a chat with the wonderful Margaret Elphinstone, author of historical fiction such as The Gathering Night and The Sea Road, for a chat about life on remote islands, Viking digs, and how the pandemic has influenced her writing. ![]()
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