![]() ![]() But then, thankfully, I was given Rose Tremain’s best-selling and Booker short-listed novel Restoration, and, plunging in against my better judgement, was immediately hooked. Feelings were what counted: feelings, ideas, characters and story. Writers should just make it up, I thought. I have no idea on what my father based this and I’m sure he was genuinely trying to console, but for years afterwards I avoided novels that mixed politics and facts, particularly historical novels. In his case, however, it was to free his brain for thinking.’ ![]() Like you, he preferred to keep clear of them. ![]() ‘Einstein’, he used to say, ‘didn’t care for facts either. He worked for the Bank of England and all too easily confounded any feeble assertions of mine, on economics or monetary policy, with a barrage of hard facts, dates and quotes. ‘Think of Einstein,’ my father would say. ![]()
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