I had created an experience for someone I hadn’t been sure I could actually do that.” In this interview in full-stop, Cain says, “Sentences are important to me they have the potential to be so alive, so activating in their own right, not just at the service of plot.” I could see that time and time again reading Indelicacy. There’s something wonderfully detached and simple about the writing, yet intensely engrossing. “I turned to the suitcase I had already been packing and folded one of my blouses before placing it inside. “In a sitting room outside the bathroom, another woman sat in front of a mirror and brushed her hair roughly, so roughly a real drop of blood was beginning to appear on her scalp.” At 52,000 words, it would barely pass NaNoWriMo. This is a thin book, and each chapter is little more than a page. Decadent.” For me, it was amazing how much Cain managed to capture in so little prose. You might imagine that kind of ruthless efficiency to have created a harsh, ascetic book, but Indelicacy doesn’t feel that way at all. CultureFlysays ,”Not a word here is wasted.

My copy is now full of underlines and folded pages (sorry to those who don’t approve). “… I began to feel that I could see my writing – not the words or the paintings – somehow in between. It’s going straight onto my list of favourites – not just of books that I’ve enjoyed, but books that have made a lasting impression. I often feel new novel ideas are green shoots which need to grow to a certain level of sturdiness before they can be exposed to the outside world, otherwise they risk withering or being blown away before they’re fully formed. I won’t tell you why or what the project is about – I’m not ready to let it out of my head just yet, even to my partner, who’s asked me multiple times what I’m thinking of writing about. I discovered this book while researching for my new project.

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