I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its on-screen equivalent, because the emotional arcs and changes that you can follow are just so much more like a novel, and so many amazing shows recently have done as much as film can do to show the interior world.

The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

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