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“As you get into your late fifties, you begin to realise that everybody else is younger and cleverer than you are, so it’s time to move on. I thought to myself, 'I’ll just have one last go. If nobody shows any interest, that’s it.’ ”

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Daily Telegraph, 4th Jan 2012

Paul Torday was nudging 60 when he wrote his first novel – now it’s a film starring Ewan McGregor. He talks to Jasper Rees .

Nudge Books

Zoë Fairbairns meets the bestselling author who has resisted the temptation to use his successful first novel as a template.

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I had been living on the edge for the last couple of weeks. If I were truthful maybe for the last couple of years. Maybe ever since I had left the army. I had started looking over my shoulder again, mostly at things that weren’t there. Camilla, my girlfriend at the time, used to say I had paranoid tenden- cies. I used to reply that, if she’d been where I’d been, she’d be paranoid too. It was a small thing, but it irritated her. Then at a party we had a falling out. It was one of those arguments like a summer thunderstorm, violent but not ser- ious; at least I hadn’t thought it was at first. I can’t remember what the particular row was about. We were always having them. Anyway, I walked out of wherever we were at the time – a party, somewhere in Kensington – and went to a pub and had a drink. Then I had another drink.

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he Death of an Owl by Paul Torday with Piers Torday cover

The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce

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