![]() ![]() ![]() The women in The Beach House could be seen as existing on the same plane of female experience but at different points in their lives: daughters, mistresses, wives, single parents, widows. I don’t ever stop to analyze whether something makes sense-when I’m writing characters, and particularly someone as vivid as Nan, they become their own people, and I allow them, as pretentious as it may sound, to dictate their own behavior. I think my characters all share similar sensibilities, and perhaps the only real difference with Nan is that age has given her a wisdom and an acceptance that some of the younger characters might not have. Is it possible to read Nan as an older version of any of the younger heroines you’ve written about in earlier books? Are there any different considerations necessary when writing about an older character? Throughout your work, you’ve created a number of memorable heroines. I was fascinated by her, and certainly held that image of her while I was creating Nan. Part of our courtship involved long walks by the beach at midnight, and there was a fabulously glamorous woman of a certain age whom we used to see riding her bike, cigarette in hand, at one or two in the morning. When I first moved into my tiny cottage by the beach the summer of my divorce, I found myself falling slowly in love with my landlord (we now live together, in a bigger house a couple of blocks away). Where did you find your inspiration for this particular book? Is Nan based on anyone in your own life?
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