what happened was that i started off with the germ of an idea and then in real life operation yewtreeo unfold, and i found that there was an uncomfortable crossover between what i was writing about and what was happening in the world, and it became much darker and more topical than i thought it would. you touch on the whole question in this book of atmospheres that can develop, rather hysterical ones, leading to, in some cases, a witchhunt atmosphere, or territory where there are false accusations and great damage done as a consequence. it's something that clearly fascinates you, the unfairness that's lurking under the surface. yes, i think so. and also the past and how the past affects the present, and how memory is not inherently a reliable tool, particularly when dealing with experiences of trauma, how memory can be affected by all kinds of things that are happening in the present day, and how memory can therefore sometimes be both unreliable and frightening. the principal character, straightly, has been a teacher for a very long time, so this has happened to him again and again. t

what happened was i started off with a germ of an idea in this book and then in real life operation yewtreeo unfold and i found there was an uncomfortable crossover in what i was writing about and what happened in the world. it became much darker and more topical than i thought it would be. you touch on the question in this book of atmospheres that can develop, rather hysterical ones leading to a kind of almost a witch—hunt atmosphere, or a territory where there are false accusations and difficulties and great damage done as a consequence. it's something that clearly fascinates you, the unfairness that is lurking there under the surface. yes, i think so. also the past and how the past affects the present. and how memory is not inherently a reliable tool, particularly when dealing with experiences of trauma, how memory can be affected by all kind of things happening in the present day and how memory can sometimes be both unreliable and frightening. the main character has been a teacherfor a frightening. the main character has been a teacher for a long time, frightening. the main character ha

he was one of the main people yewtree being. you had quite a public... yes.ost certain that i would have been diagnosed as attention deficit disorder as a child. look at my school reports, disruptive, brilliant, annoying, never stopping to speak. i went to prison for complicated reasons. and then i thought everything was fine for top and that is really when it all started to go wrong. i realised that i was somehow prey to these terrible moods so when it came... i was in a play and i booked out and everything collapsed, my confidence, the general feeling that my life was over. i got the proper diagnosis then and that's when i thought everything was ok because i had faced the beast. i tried to kill myself. i was lying in a hospital bed after the worst attack. thinking a lunatic, looking back at the work i have done, maybe it stems from the bipolar. a director, acted in it, but when i look back on outsiders, eve ryo ne but when i look back on outsiders, everyone seemed but when i look back on outsiders, everyone seemed to say the same thing that i was quite mani

what happened was that i started off with the germ of an idea and then in real life operation yewtreehe world, and it became much darker and more topical than i thought it would. you touch on the whole question in this book of atmospheres that can develop, rather hysterical ones, leading to, in some cases, a witchhunt atmosphere, or territory where there are false accusations and great damage done as a consequence. it's something that clearly fascinates you, the unfairness that's lurking under the surface. yes, i think so. and also the past and how the past affects the present, and how memory is not inherently a reliable tool, particularly when dealing with experiences of trauma, how memory can be affected by all kinds of things that are happening in the present day, and how memory can therefore sometimes be both unreliable and frightening. the principal character, straightly, has been a teacher for a very long time, so this has happened to him again and again. there's that interesting sense of having seen generations of pupils coming through, in his case, to learn classics or not. fi