But at the same point, who wants to read a book just set in the grim, gray, dour, miserable, cold, hungry period? If you’re writing highbrow literary fiction, then obviously, the more depressing the better. That first step when you’re trying to heave yourself onto your feet again is sometimes the hardest step, and I wanted to capture that year. There was this long period of people effectively being on their knees. Everything is suddenly in Technicolor, and women are in their crinolines, and life is on the up and up. A lot of popular history skates from 1945 straight into the 1950s. The immediate years that followed were just so grim, and it’s something we don’t often talk about. My previous book, Goodnight From London, ends on V-E Day, and so then I thought, “What happens the next morning?” What happens is people look around and they see that their country is in ruins, figuratively and literally. JENNIFER ROBSON: It’s a conviction that what happens after a war is often just as interesting as what happens during the war. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Before you hit on the gown idea, you knew you wanted to write a novel set in postwar Britain why that time period?
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