Sadie Jones - Small Wars
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Following the huge success of her debut novel The Outcast
(shortlisted for 2008 Orange Prize) Sadie Jones talks about her
latest and much awaited work Small Wars.
In the video interview Sadie Jones explains that she didn't really
want to return to the fifties but that she realised the significant
parallels between the Cyprus conflict and those in which the
British army is engaged in modern times.
Sadie Jones Interview
Small Wars
Following the huge success of her debut novel The
Outcast (shortlisted for 2008 Orange Prize) Sadie Jones talks
about her latest and much awaited work Small
Wars.
The two main characters Hal and Clara move to Cyprus at the
height of the conflict in the 1950's following a few years in
Germany. Soon each are torn between their duty to their country and
to each other.
In the video interview Sadie Jones explains that she didn't
really want to return to the fifties but that she realised the
significant parallels between the Cyprus conflict and those in
which the British army is engaged in modern times.
As for the success which her first book brought her, Sadie Jones
explains what it is like to live the dream of every debut
novelist.
"Reading Small Wars now. I lived in Cyprus as a child during
the time period in the book, daughter of a soldier. Just returned
from Famagusta revisiting childhood haunts. Book accurate, discuss
this period a lot with my Mum, now in her eighties. Wanted to let
the author know how evocative the book is for someone who was
actually there. Interview fascinating."
Catherine Hartman - West Midlands, UK
SMALL WARS was on the longlist for the Orange Prize
for Fiction 2010
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know... Many thanks Ed.