Katy
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Kate Morton:
I have loved the stories you sometimes wrap your books around. Eliza's fairy-tales, in the Forgotten Garden and the Mud-Man in The Distant Hours. Do you write these smaller stories and then create a book around them? Or do you write them later after having started your book? How much do the stories influence your characters?
Kate Morton
Thank you, Katy! I love stories within stories, too, and always feel that they create texture and make the world of the novel more real. In The Forgotten Garden and The Distant Hours, Eliza's fairy tales and the Mud Man developed from the characters and themes within the larger book. Once I'd written them, though, they then fed back into the story and enabled me to develop the characters further. Great question! Kate
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Andy
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Kate Morton:
This isn't a question Kate merely a note of appreciation, just finished reading The Secret Keeper, what a wonderful wonderful book Kate, so many books yes I enjoy but this book will live with me for many years to come, I live in Australia and have just bought your book online for my mother in England, I feel sure she will get just as much enjoyment from this beautiful book as I did. Thank you? (had to include that.
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