Elly Griffiths: ‘I write in my garden shed with a spider plant called Sir Gawain’ 📚 🟠 ellygriffiths talks about her writing shed, her love of spiders, and her favourite heroines in literature.
I’m in my writing shed. I can see a distant view of the sea.by David Lodge. It’s about a group of Catholic students in the 50s and 60s. As the world changes around them, they start to question the certainties of the One True Church. Lodge is brilliant on doubt and faith. He can also be funny and tragic within a single sentence.Wilkie Collins. I love his sense of place and atmosphere.
He created some wonderful characters, too, including [’s] Marian Halcombe, one of the best heroines in literature, and [the same book’s] Count Fosco, one of the best villains.It’s a shed in the garden, just big enough for a desk, chair and bookcase. There is also a painting of the Norfolk coast and a spider plant called Sir Gawain. I used to share the shed with my cat, Gus, but sadly he died a few months ago, aged 18.
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