I think we all have very different views of the world, depending on where and when we live. HD: First of all thank you for having me here tonight. Now, my first question to Helen: As an Englishwoman, how come that you are so fascinated with Russian history? We will focus on her novel “The Betrayal” tonight, but her latest novel, “The Greatcoat“, written in 2012, is actually the book we will be discussing in May, so if any of you want to read more of Helen Dunmore and would like to join the group, I hope I have whetted your appetites now. Now, I have gone to great lengths to get her e-mail address, which publishers or agencies were rather reluctant to part with, but once I had it and had written to her, she replied within two or three hours and said, yes, she’d very much like to come and read from her book. I always ask the groups which of the authors we have read in one year I should invite for an event, and almost everyone last year wanted to meet Helen. Some of you know me from the reading groups that I host and it is due to the groups that Helen Dunmore is here tonight. JB: First of all, a very warm welcome to all of you, familiar and new faces alike. “Meet the Author” event with Helen Dunmore (HD) on 25 April 2013 at the Ingeborg Drewitz Stadtbibliothek Steglitz, moderated by Jan Bild (JB)
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