Emma Hooper “I’ve got an obsessive nature when it comes to the rhythm of the words and I’ll have sentences that are perfectly grammatically correct, but it has to have just the right amount of syllables.”
[ in an interview with ‘The Bookseller’ magazine, October 17, 2014]
To read my review of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, click here.
Click here to read The Bookseller article in full.
See how these other novelists write:-
Mary Gaitskill
Bill Clegg
Anne Tyler
‘Etta and Otto and Russell and James’ by Emma Hooper [UK: Fig Tree]
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