![]() ![]() ![]() At least you know there will be interest and that there’s enthusiasm for the work. In a way it’s much nicer to write following a success than the follow-up to a failure. ![]() And yes, there was a weight of expectation, but I can’t ever imagine publishing something in a kind of casual, lighthearted way. So it took a long time for me to come up a story and characters that felt as compelling and interesting to me. And I didn’t want to rush a follow-up or knock off something that felt like a pale imitation or a disappointment or the same book in disguise. Because One Day came out quite slowly around the world, I spent literally years talking about it, and it was very hard to talk about Emma and Dexter in the evenings and then sit down the next morning and start on something new. It took me a long time to have the time to concentrate, really. After One Day was such a runaway success, did you find, when you sat down to write Us, that your expectations or your process were altered or affected in any way? ![]()
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