Emily Woof interviewed by the Guardian

'She (Emily) is impatient with the kind of literary criticism that makes too much of a writer?s biography, but sees her own inner life as her most vital raw material: ?It?s like diving, you go right under and drag stuff up. And sometimes when it bounces to the surface it?s wonderful, so exciting and effervescent, it just bubbles up. And sometimes it?s a kind of agony, like agghhh there it is.?...'

The Lightning Tree by Emily Woof is published by Faber on 15 January, follow this link for the full interview: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jan/10/emily-woof-the-lightning-tree-books-interview