Freya North: My life in travel

Travelling around the US made me decide to write a novel.

It was in 1991, I was figuring out whether I was going to do a PhD or write a novel. I came back home and decided I was going to write the novel. I went all over on that trip: California, Chicago and Illinois , New York and New England. It was having all this lovely time to myself, far away from everyone I knew, that made me decide to do it. They were asleep when I was awake; I found it incredibly liberating. It freed me up a lot and also gave me a sense of confidence in my ability to make decisions even if they were decisions that were unexpected. While I was in New England I remember thinking to myself: "I could set a novel around here."

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