Диссертация (Особенности просодического оформления речи современных женщин с высоким профессиональным статусом (на материале британских интервью)), страница 28

or a Dickens or something that wouldbe a very flattering analogy. Yes.J: Some people say my child simply isn’t interested in books and he/she isnever gonna read, there’s no point trying. Is there ever such a thing as a child whowouldn’t or couldn’t enjoy a book?JR: No!... no well I mean unless that child is God forbid in a coma or something.No, I don’t accept that and I think the way in is to read them books, start by readingthem books. Some children I mean as an ex-teacher I can certainly testify to the factthat some children are very intimidated by the process of reading, of having tophysically read and some children have problems with that.

But you can still lead them168to a love of books by…you’re just finding a really good story and reading it to them.It’s not that difficult. Unless of course the parent as literacy problems then it’s difficultbut then you would hope that at the child’s school there’s a teacher who loves booksenough that they will read to the class.Alexandra Shulman (Главный редактор журнала Vogue)J: Tell us about the book and what’s the story coz everyone here is desperateto buy one.A: Well, the book “Can we still be friends” and it’s a story of three youngwomen who’ve left the university and they became friends at uni. And then they goout into the real world and they are trying to work out what they want to do with theirlives, what jobs they wanna do, what their relationship with their parents is like andhow sort of growing up and going into the real world changes the relationship betweenthe friends.

And I thought of it one day. I’d gone home very quickly to change beforegoing out to kind of a work event. And it was pouring with rain and I was in this blackcab coming back into town. And I suddenly had this vision..well nowadays you wouldhave like Instagram I guess but in my day we had a photobook pictures where there’slike three of you like smiling together in a row. And I suddenly thought: “Yeah, Ireally want to write about those three faces.” They came to me in a kind of vision..thethree girls. And so that’s what it’s about really.

And their love lives, of course. It’s abig part..I mean it was a big part of my life when I was in early twenties so I kinddamade it a big part of the book.J: Tell us something about the characters in the book. There’s one person inthe book, Sal, who is a little bit like you. People say when you write you normallytake little of yourself.A: The three girls are Sal, Kendra and Annie.

And Sal is a journalist and theonly thing that’s like me about Sal is that she works on a Sunday paper. It’s set in 1983169and she works on a paper called “The Sunday Herald” and Sal has…she is acompletely wild girl. She drinks too much, takes too many drugs…erm she’sincredibly bright and ambitious but her life is a mess.

And I never really drank toomuch, took drugs and my life hasn’t really been a mess. But I did work on a Sundaypaper. But Kendra is a daughter of very rich parents and she wants to do somethingvery worthwhile and sort of discover herself so she goes on a bit of a sort of emotionaljourney. And actually the one that I most like is Annie who goes to work for a PRcompany which again I’ve never done.

But all she wants to do is really have aboyfriend and get married. And I think at that age that was much more my motivationthan to have a career. A career sort of came upon me more that being my ambition..