“Honestly, I don't feel as though I really wrote this book. I feel as though it came through me. I don't know anybody like Angelica, none of the characters are based on anybody I know. She's absolutely not me or anything like me. And it just emerged so I would write every morning. When I was writing my first draft, I would get up every morning, an hour early before going into work. I’d get up at 4.30 and I had a ritual with the right tablecloth and the teapot and cup, etc, etc. And I'd just sit down and the story would pour out for about an hour. And then I’d just stop. And that was it. It was done. And so, I was doing that every day. I think the first draft just sort of poured out over six months. I've got notebooks full of notes on the characters and the settings and the astrology and the numerology. Yeah, I do all that.”
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