![]() ![]() But honestly, I don’t tend to impose moral judgments on my characters, and I think of psychotherapists as very much like the rest of us: flawed, troubled, deeply human. I would say “ambivalent” as opposed to “cynical.” I’ve encountered many wonderful therapists over the years, but also an equal number who were as dysfunctional and damaged as any of their patients. Would you agree that in both The Maidens and The Silent Patient, your first novel, you take a cynical view of psychology? ![]() Grief led me naturally to Tennyson-I started reading In Memoriam for inspiration and then gradually it worked its way into the book. In this case, I began with Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides, thinking about the themes of sacrifice and grief. Growing up in the Mediterranean, I was heavily influenced by Greek myths and tragedy Greek mythology shaped my creative imagination-it’s very much where I “live” as a writer. ![]()
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