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And yet there's always humour running through your
writing - even the worst situations can give rise to a joke or be turned into something
positive. |
"Yes, humour is like leaven in the dough. Things
would be even worse if we all went around saying how terrible life was. And often you can
see the funny side even in the midst of some apparent crisis. For example, when I was in
hospital with kidney trouble, the very first meal they gave me was braised kidneys. And
while I was lying there in pain, it just struck me as comic. I couldn’t help
wondering whose kidneys they were! "There’s a lot of humour in Second Skin. For example, Catherine’s attempt to prepare a romantic dinner for Will, the poet, which goes tragically but hilariously wrong. And the clash between her conservative son, with his immaculate show-house in the suburbs, and her outrageously bohemian flatmates." |
