MLF: What are you reading at the moment?
FA: Does anyone ever answer this question truthfully? I'm usually reading or dipping into two or three books at once, for various locations and moods: poetry, history, a light detective story for the train.
MLF: What made you want to be a writer? Who/ what is your biggest inspiration?
FA: Hearing my mother read poems to me in bed when I was five probably started me off. Phrases such as my "biggest inspiration" don't really make sense to me.
MLF: If you could meet any writer, artist, musician (alive or dead) who would it be and why?
FA: Katherine Mansfield, because we shared so many factors in our lives, many decades apart -- I went to her school in Wellington, lived in her street, emigrated to England as she did. And I'm a great admirer of her stories.
MLF: What would you be if not a writer?
FA: A naturalist.
MLF: Do you ever get writer's block? If you do, how do you get over it?
FA: Frequently. All you can do is wait. Long walks help.
MLF: Which piece of your own work are you most proud of?
FA: Usually whichever I've most recently finished.
MLF: What do you see in your future?
FA: The inevitable: old age, death.
MLF: What are you looking forward to most at MLF?
FA: Being in Manchester and meeting old friends.
Fleur will be at the Manchester Museum tonight, from 7:30pm. Find out more here.
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