A PAGE-TURNING LIFE
Elif Shafak is reflecting on the lonely life of a novelist.
“It’s a very solitary task,” says the award-winning Turkish-British author. “You are in a tiny room for hours, days, weeks, months, so to go out into this public space to meet readers, talk to them and learn that the story written in your solitude has maybe touched their hearts – that’s incredibly inspiring for us.” She smiles, adding: “And then you go back into your cocoon.”