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has continued to write over a period of forty years. Her later
work has been quite different from her early novels, concentrating
on society and issues of social responsibility: 'state of the
nation' novels which look at how the world connects up, rather
than on individuals and motherhood..
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"I
find the question of how individuals relate to society
a very interesting and worrying one...I feel that at the
moment we are constantly being drawn away from our communities:
we can't go home, we're a very mobile society, but it
does create a kind of uprootedness. We move more physically
on aeroplanes; we use the internet; our sense of community
is being exploded all the time."
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In
her latest novel, The Peppered Moth, to be published
in January 2001, she returns once more to the theme of the mother.
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