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It's getting quite bored of these.

Ever told to discuss the work?

Well, I thought we could just jump straight

in if that's OK with.

OK.

Hello.

Liam Summers, story of a fading patriarch presiding

over a grief stricken family,

has

been described as one of the most striking debuts of the year.

Here with us to discuss his first novel is the author.

Thank you for joining us, Liam.

Thanks for having me.

So I thought we could start off by touching on the inspiration

behind the novel.

What exactly is it that drew you to tell this story?

Hello.

I'm on my way to a lesson in a way.

Something's coming to you.

Just tend to say there are morning person or an evening kind of writer.

I just subscribe to that.

If you're writing, you're writing.

Simple as that.

It's not something that can be deferred or denied

if you have to do it.

Which, by the way, is the prerequisite for write.

You don't have a choice in the matter.

You must write.

If I knew where the ideas came from,

I'd have written and indeed been paid.

Well.

I've got more than I have.

Bearing in mind that I've been prolific and not badly off,

the short answer is I don't

know.

I know writers who obsess.

How do I say something original?

And I say something unique.

There are no new ideas.

This writers are reconciled to the fact,

and if they're not, they're pretty soon will

be.

Average writers attempt originality.

They fail universally.

Good writers have the sense to quarrel from their betters.

Great, great writers, Steel.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Mr Thomas, it's Liam.

Going to follow me this way please.

You'll find him just there.

I'll take that job.

Thank you.

Hello, I'm Liam.

You must be pretty.

Daniel homework.

Your parents around?

But they're up at the house.

Why?

I usually speak to parents before the 1st lesson.

That's fine.

Your father.

If you want the forward line, no, I don't want to disturb.

But you want to meet him, right?

It's fine.

It's only right.

No, it's fine.

OK.

So what are we working on?

We are working on tragedy.

Modern, ancient.

I don't need you to turn the pages.

Congratulations by the way.

English Literature is one of the most competitive courses.

Oxford don't shortlist many candidates,

so your aptitude tests must be very impressive.

That test is one thing.

The interviews, the college specific test,

they're different.

You'll need to cultivate the kind of critical thinking that.

Might not be familiar to you yet.

Kind of a house style.

If they have done that.

You can do it in the house though.

Yeah.

Liam.

This is Sinclair, Ellen.

Thanks for coming on such short notice.

You see, there was impressive.

Your agency speaks very highly of you.

That's kind of why should hope not.

I should hope it's true.

You have a beautiful home is this thing, Claire?

Thank you.

Summer suits.

This is the reading room.

It's usually only me in here.

We don't use the front entrance match.

There is a back door to the garden.

This is beautiful.

Thank you.

You made it.

It's kind of.

Numinous.

And you've met Ellis.

You're laying the table for 4:00 tonight.

Daughtry Requirements Mr Something.

Actually, I'm vegan.

1.

And this is my favourite acquisition.

I bought it from the artist when she didn't win the Turner.

Kind of a consolation.

She's a collectors darling now, of course, but I found her.

It's adapted from Bernini's Apollo and Daphne.

Do you know it?

I know the story.

Never had the heart to sell it.

Why would you?

That's my job.

I'm a curator.

Shouldn't really get sentimental.

Something to drink.

I'd like a beer, wouldn't you?

You know, Liam graduated with a first in English.

So was your tutor Well, must be a vocation.

He wants to share his knowledge, his experience.

We thought it best.

Bertie spent the last of the summer term here

so we can focus on his entrance exams.

You thought it best.

Well.

Let's go and let you down.

Enough.

I wasn't going to leave this up to chance.

You must be good.

Evening all.

I'll swell my love.

I guess it burnt.

Liam, isn't it?

Yes, this is Sinclair.

Thank you.

Become a good day.

And this doesn't mean roast lamb.

Thank you.

Music.

We heard Rachmaninoff yesterday.

Ohh give me 3 good reasons not to listen to him today and.

I'll change my mind.

Why don't we ask our guest?

Liam, what do you think of recommending OFF?

He was the last great Russian romantic composer.

Known for his piano concertos more than his symphonies,

his he was a conductor of the

Bolshoi when the Russian first Russian Revolution began.

With music, she meant.

What did you think of the music?

I don't.

I'm not familiar.

Rocket man, and off it is that.

The last great Russian romantic.

So why?

What did you do study today?

Have known for the most part.

Ohh, you looked into the manuscript edition yet?

I've got a few articles.

I can make up a reading list.

Thanks.

You can thank it when you get in.

If if you get in.

We should have a chat about the lesson, see how it went.

I'm sure Bertie has, I'm sure he does.

Which is why we discuss it after dinner.

You can wait in the drawing when you're finished eating.

You're out.

We'd like you to stay.

Is this from the agency?

Always with the agency.

Here,

we prefer our personal bond.

There have been incidents in the past.

With staff.

We told them we no longer need a tutor.

Didn't want to compromise your relationship.

It's so important.

Bertie has someone on his side that knows the English system.

I studied in Paris and New York

and his father didn't go, of course.

Non disclosure.

It's very protective.

Getting close to the end, so he tells me.

Yes, five years since the last one, The subject of your thesis.

It's on your TV.

You'll report to me at the end of every lesson.

About Bertie's progress.

Come and find me.

He has to get to me.

He doesn't know about the thesis, does he, Mr Sinclair?

I'm sure he'd be flattered.

But you're not here for him.

Good morning.

From the fairest creatures we desire increase.

Thereby beauties Rose might never die,

but as the Ripper should buy time deceased, his

tender air might bear his memory.

So you're onto the sonnets.

So you've learned a poem.

I just remember.

You've got a photographic memory.

Not quite.

Words are like triggers for me.

They set off a sequence, so I read them.

I remember.

You don't know you can try me?

And to be or not to be.

You can do better than that.

Nativity, once in the main of light,

crawls to maturity

wherewith being crowned Crooked

Clips is against his glory fight and timed off

gave just now his gift confound.

Time just transfixed you.

You've got a party trick.

I get it.

I'm sure it helps you get your first,

but I can't use it and I don't need it.

So why don't you fetch me that meeting list?

Should I write it down so you don't forget?

How did you go?

Well.

Independent research mainly.

Is that your usual practise?

It varies.

First student at parties intelligence.

I say independence is a good thing.

You're the best resource you could have.

It needs to be making use of you, otherwise why are you here?

I'll make sure he does.

Good.

That's right, Kowski, isn't it?

June from the Seasons.

I thought you were unfamiliar with classical.

I'm learning.

Me too trying.

Are you the only one who plays?

Bertie used to.

Beautifully.

His brother wrote.

Mostly short stories.

Thank you.

He took after his father.

Flags to have someone around.

And amanuensis.

Is to be me at the start.

We don't talk about his work.

We don't talk about Felix.

Follow those rules and you should be fine.

Of course.

Great writers.

Steel.

But do you think it's inevitable that elements of your?

Personal life.

Seep into your work.

You're somebody who has experienced great personal tragedy,

and I'm wondering if the

loss of your son has had a direct impact on the nature of your writing.

If I were drawing on my life,

I'd be writing memoir,

not fiction.

But if you're asking if it has affected my writing,

the answer is yes, inasmuch as any

loss affects one's life.

Losing a child is.

Losing a part of oneself and.

Bound up with the grief is a profound sense of injustice.

Of being robbed and when they take their own life.

One is.

Compelled to the unthinkable.

To grieve the child is to grieve the killer.

But if you're asking me seriously,

and I sincerely hope that you're not,

whether my son's

death has inspired my writing, the answer is no.

I will not be writing about his death.

I will be writing in spite of it, and you will have your novel.

When it is ready.

Mr Sinclair.

Mr Sinclair.

Liam, Just family tonight.

There will be fixings in the guest.

Sure.

See you tomorrow 3-4.

Close the Door 5.

Good morning, Mr Simon.

Something I can help you with.

Yes, we've run out of coffee in my.

Place come and have that.

I'll put a pot on now.

Thanks.

Just getting us some coffee.

Glad you're making yourself useful.

Everything, okay, Mr Sinclair.

Don't you have to listen?

Versus just setting up.

Printer.

What are you trying to do?

Print something?

Would you mind?

The Prince is the problem, nothing to do with that thing.

My dad worked at 19th since the father.

Yeah, I know of is.

And.

That's Winston.

I beg your pardon?

Empty space and Points of Light.

Jeanette Winterson.

Final words of sexing the cherry.

And even the most solid of things,

and the most real, the best love than the well known

are only hand shadows on the wall,

empty space and Points of Light.

Good spot.

Is it research?

Close the door on your way out would you?

Mustn't keep but waiting.

Hope you like it.

Strong.

Dishonest.

It's lame.

I know.

Might be useful if I could read some of what you're writing.

Useful.

No, Liam.

Contact the balls.

Why not?

His brother, Dendron.

I've never been in a garden before.

Not everyone has gardens like this.

It's poisonous.

Toxins in the sun?

Do you want one?

All right.

Cheers.

It's basically a weed.

Nothing can grow around it.

The routes they are.

They struggle everything they touch.

It's quite over actually.

Phoenix was obsessed with them.

Robert Denver.

Forestry.

Mention group.

They are beautiful.

Somebody who was obsessed with them.

No, no, no, no.

God.

Ohh, Mr Summers,

there's been a slight delay to your laundry.

I have brought you a fresh change of clothes.

Just put them

down here, that's all right.

Sure I can do that.

You are expected at dinner.

Liam, So sorry, we should have warned you.

The power tends to go down in the storm.

The price of isolation?

And there was.

Any objections to Beethoven?

You boys didn't lose anything in the store, did you?

I didn't.

We're making great progress, I think.

Oh, in that case, I may need to borrow you this evening.

Computers playing up again, You don't mind, you know.

That's fine, I've tomorrow's lesson planned.

You know things are right too.

Did you show Bertie your student visa?

Seen the novel.

Tower 24

Working title.

It's actually quite good.

These include.

That's where the desk lamp is burning into the night.

Haven't worked on it in a long time.

It's

it's not finished, we have it.

Thanks.

Come and see me after dinner.

You know where I am.

They suit you?

Felix's clothes.

This damn thing buckles in a storm

and I need to know that my work is safe.

You've got multiple backups, right?

Ohh, he's got people do that for me pH,

you know, but not anymore.

More people that can be very nice.

You need to enter your password.

I can run a backup to the cloud if you want.

Absolutely not.

I don't give my work away for free.

Looks like there's another server running.

Is it here?

Ohh that always next door.

Used to be part of the study.

Didn't need space.

And we just shut it down,

keep it running just in case,

OK?

Should be safe for the next storm.

Goodnight, Mr Sinclair, That was quick.

Scotch.

Sit down.

You're serious about doing this.

You must bear one thought cheerfully in mind.

Whenever you put pen to paper.

Whenever you.

Read, eat, drink, fuck whatever one thought.

One simple one.

Good writers borrow.

Great writers steal and tell your family.

There is a new novel started a while back.

Almost in the line.

I was wondering if you might be on hand for the final stretch.

Keep the story safe.

Provide some amusement I've found in the past

that can be really useful someone separate

from work.

You know, not a writer.

Preferably not a real one.

So easy to forget.

So they really came.

Ohh, don't want to distract from birth studies?

No, no you wouldn't.

And I'd pay, of course.

Take her in.

We'll make a Thief of You yet.

What's it called?

Rose tree.

What do you think?

I love it.

What did you 2 talk about?

Yeah.

I won't tell.

Ohh hello you lost ohh missing mother.

What are we discussing?

Bertie.

How he's doing?

Course the boy wonder.

Going to be another late one, I'm afraid, my love.

Of course, darling.

Yeah.

Friends, family, there must be sacrifice.

When you embark upon a novel

and begin that communion with yourself,

you are alone,

armed only with your craft and hopefully, your talent.

What's that?

It's an essay of yours.

This is good to party.

I'd love to have thought of this.

You're reading the salt.

How can I make it better?

And then your conclusion.

You might want to consider Shakespeare's familiarity with the politics.

I didn't know that you were allowed to make connections like that,

you know, between

Turks across the genres.

It's like a whole different thing.

Sorry, but there are no new ideas.

So Alexander, now Aristotle.

Most writers are reconciled to the fact,

and if they're not, they're very soon will be.

Ohh Liam, give that the one server with you.

Flower gathering is my favourite from a boy's will.

Are you dumb because you know me not or dumb because you know?

Come in.

Everything's fine.

You've still got that server running next door.

Ohh, forget that it's dormant.

I can just shut it down, leave it.

Your father teach you all that?

I learned he didn't teach me.

He's glad you didn't go into it.

What are people saying about me?

People, thank you for tired.

You are amusing.

Have you only just got out?

We're getting our money's worth.

Ohh, great.

And but you seem to be getting along.

This new arrangement isn't drawing your focus away from him, is it?

No, not at all.

What makes an ending?

That's what we've been talking about.

He's thinking of his own.

Have you seen it?

But he's writing.

I think so.

I think he's close.

Kills me, the missing mother, because I was a no and her son died.

I was in Venice would be an ally.

I don't go anymore.

You're up late.

So are you.

You know you're not the first, right?

Get some sleep, Percy.

Goodnight.

No.

Someone die right here, right now.

Who owns my words?

It don't mean a legal sense.

I mean testament to experience was.

I chose because I believe they bore witness

to a truth beyond fiction,

because when strung

together they called it to a music

only I could hear resolve some conflict raging within

them.

Who owns them?

Table.

To ever chooses to read them.

He says we are the words we write.

So do we.

Find this.

Fucking keep us.

Ohh my gods, come out of the machine now.

Ghosts stay in them.

You've said that before.

In parallel lessons,

Jesus are repeating myself now

and from one of your lesser works.

I don't even remember how about that one.

First draught tad shorter than usual.

I thought you might like to proofread it.

That would be a problem.

None of you read mine.

Ohh right.

Probably in first thing tomorrow morning.

Full story from Bear, not a single one of them read.

What the fuck did they even teach with that school mental burnout?

You may as well be illiterate, are you?

What you

tweet?

Any of these works that you show?

These two intellectually mine.

Come here.

It's me.

To me.

Good morning.

Morning.

My novel

Tower 24 Longhand.

Like the best?

Look forward to it.

Ohh, take this with you.

This is why

I haven't.

I don't know enough.

I'm not writing.

I'm wasting my time.

I'm wasting more time.

It's just all the fucking.

Listen to me.

Look at me.

Take a breath.

Take a breath.

Look at me.

Just one breath.

One breath.

Sorry, it's OK.

OK.

I won't let him bother you.

It's too late for that.

Yeah, I think that if you want to understand.

When you said I wasn't the 1st.

What did you mean?

I know I'm not the first tutor,

but that's not what you meant, is it?

My father loves keeping his favourites clothes.

He moved feeders into the room next to his rucksack.

I'm not Felix.

I know.

Take the day off birthday.

So you're not leaving.

No.

I'm not going anywhere.

Good swim.

Yeah.

Not as warm as it looks.

Don't do it again.

Sorry, legs off limits for their sake.

It's only been two years since.

Feelings.

There's a delicate.

Sorry, I didn't know.

You do now.

I finished your novel, by the way.

Bring mine over tonight.

We'll debrief.

I might need a little more time to finish reading it.

Found time to swim.

Come in.

I've finally tested the tax where I've spotted anything.

There's a cross reference document on my laptop.

Very thorough.

Well, don't keep me in suspense.

It's like nothing you've written before.

It was hard to read.

Why?

Because even if I started writing it,

even if I.

Devoted my entire life.

I wouldn't come close.

I mean the voice, the rhythm, the cadences, it just feels.

It feels new.

I don't know how you've done it, but you sound new.

Very well could be a masterpiece.

Well, the ending Part 3.

It feels like a different novel.

Like it doesn't belong here.

The work just deserves better, I had to tell you that.

You seem to have misunderstood Liam.

They're not peers.

They're proofreader, but as you've begun.

We'll suspend disbelief a while.

Your first novel.

Something of a misnomer it's not.

How do you mean it's not a novel?

It's possible.

Airport fiction, I can see why you gave up on.

It

could be tweaked into a short story or novella at best.

It could easily pass it on to my editor for a second opinion.

But I have a reputation.

Imagine.

My publisher wakes up one morning, finds a message from me.

Coming to film an ex?

Best thing Tower 24, You think I'd cracked?

I can't put my name to just anything.

Ohh.

That's years of work, really.

How frustrating.

Then again, I'll never get back the hours I spent reading it.

We didn't waste any more time.

I'm sorry, Ohh, don't you want to know?

Have you considered teaching?

This isn't about the writing.

It's only ever about the writing layer.

I regret to say.

You cannot write.

Send me that document, would you?

I'll do it before I leave.

Ohh, you're not finished yet.

You can find someone else.

Liam, you signed the agreement.

Great shame to break your bond now,

my so loathe dealing with Royals.

I'm saving your life now.

I thought you didn't want to do public appearances.

Just dropping into the conference surprised them all.