Over the February half term Karine Hetherington and I found time in our hectic schedules to meet up at the Royal Festival Hall for coffee and a catch up. The most important celebration of the morning was the recent publishing of her first novel, The Poet & The Hypotenuse . The last time we saw each other was about 3 years ago at one of Caroline Natzler 's courses when Karine was working on a short story version of The Poet & The Hypotenuse. In fact, we worked together on a collection called Chasing the Hypotenuse . So in the 3 years since I last saw you the story has developed into a full blown book. Yes, it's been a long process because it's taken a long time. I've been working part-time. It's probably taken about 5 years. HOW IT ALL STARTED It started out as a short story about a young Russian emigre and her family in the 1930s. Then mushroomed eventually into a book which took a while becau...
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