![]() There must have been a lot of research? Thank you. How did you immerse yourself in the 15th century? I remember thinking, for the first time: I want to try writing. There was something about them, when I read them in my early 20s, that inspired in me not just admiration but aspiration. Byatt’s Still Life and Graham Swift’s Waterland. Books took my breath away back then with a regularity that’s missing now – though some books do still astonish me. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, Milan Kundera, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Mary Webb, Graham Greene, Victor Hugo, John Wyndham. I binge-read when I was a child, but I don’t know if I could call any books from my childhood ‘literary influences’. Who were your literary influences as you were growing up? She has won the AMI Literature Award and the Betty Trask Prize. ![]() Samantha's novels have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award and the James Tait Black Prize, and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Baileys Prize and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Samantha Harvey is the author of four novels, The Wilderness, All Is Song, Dear Thief and, most recently, The Western Wind, which is one of our most requested titles. ![]()
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