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“I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home”

Tracy Chevalier book Girl with a Pearl Earring

Source: Girl with a Pearl Earring

“We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.”

Tracy Chevalier book Remarkable Creatures

Source: Remarkable Creatures

“Dialogue is always tricky. Authenticity is almost impossible, and you always end up sounding too olde worlde. What I do is to strip the words back, so I get the dialogue to sound timeless…”

Tracy Chevalier

On how she composes character dialogue in “Tracy Chevalier: 'Slavery has to be raised until it's put to bed'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/17/tracy-chevalier-interview-last-runaway in The Guardian (2013 Mar 16)