Harriet Evans | 'I want to write about things that interest me'

On the sunny spring morning that we speak, Harriet Evans has been going through the page proofs of her 12th novel, The Beloved Girls, with a forensic eye—long before she was a bestselling author, Evans was a highly regarded editor—and it has not met her exacting standards. “I’m actually mortified by some of the stuff you will have read that I’m taking out,” she says, cheerfully, over the phone from her newly adopted home of Bath. “Bits where I’ve used the same word in a paragraph three times!” Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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