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Hemlock and After Angus Wilson. No Laughing Matter Angus Wilson. We use cookies to personalise your experience. So it is a challenge. So I hope that my sense of humour seems to coincide with that of enough readers to make it worthwhile. But it is difficult.
I think even with the funniest lines in this book, I don't actually laugh when I write them. I just think I know when it's funny or when I've made it as funny as I think it could be. Sometimes that means dialling it back a little bit as less is more. And believe me, I have often gone too far and not restrained myself. So I'm learning as I go to dial it back a little bit and let the primacy of storytelling rule the day. I think people are the most fascinating creatures we have on the planet.
When you take somebody you think you know well and then you have them confront the situation they've never faced before — and that many human beings have faced before — it's fun to try and predict how they're going to react and still be true to their character traits. So there are plenty of scenes in this novel where we've never seen Angus and Daniel doing some of the things they have to do together.
And they're not doing it by choice! They're reacting in a situation, relying on instincts and their own personalities and working together to do that. It's a fish out of water story, which is what The Best Laid Plans was in the first place.
Take a crusty old Scottish engineering professor and I dropped him on the floor of the House of Commons. Now I'm taking that same engineering professor and his sidekick and dropping him in the middle of some international intrigue — where the stakes are quite high and seeing how they respond. So it was a lot of fun to do that. It was like slipping on a comfortable old sweater, but I hadn't worn it for 11 years. A variety of newsletters you'll love, delivered straight to you.
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