The perils of being a writer
In an article in today’s “Guardian”, writer Lionel Shriver explains how basing her fifth novel on her own family proved disasterous for familial relationships.
All writers face the problem that inevitably they will draw on the lives of people they know – perhaps most especially their own – but one does not want to cause hurt and, in the end, it is fiction.
So, for the avoidance of doubt, everything in my 12 short stories so far is fictional. Often the settings are real and characters and incidents are inspired by my own experiences, but ultimately everything is fiction.