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I write in the novel’s afterword that our recent wars “finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy”.

Chris Cleave

I write in the novel’s afterword that our recent wars “finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy”.
CHRIS CLEAVE

Enemy War Writing
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.
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Enough Jingoism War
There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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Differences Mean Two
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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Events Memories Wwii
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Thinking
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.
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Generations Golden Thinking
I’m always determined that as a novelist I’m going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
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Character Research Writing
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
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Country Horror Suffering

I write in the novel’s afterword that our recent wars “finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy”.

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I write in the novel’s afterword that our recent wars “finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy”.

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