“We may all wish and strive to live at our fullest in the personal, domestic world,” the author Graham Swift says, “yet we also live in the larger world, which now and then, like it or not, can overtake us.”
” is set in late October of 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis. What made you want to revisit that period?I think it was the story that made me revisit. It was that way round, as it often seems to be. The first sentences of the story, with their historical annunciation, came into my head—I can’t say why—then everything else followed. But I do remember, strongly, the Cuban missile crisis, though I was only thirteen at the time. I remember the palpable fear in the air.
In the course of the story, Frank is repeatedly thrown back to his memories of the Second World War, when he was in the Air Force going on bombing missions over Germany. It’s obvious why he has tried to repress these memories. Is there a reason—aside from the thought of missiles heading for Cuba, of course—that they start to haunt him now?
But it’s an irony of the story, and I hope the source of some comedy, that everyone in it is more immediately beset by the crisis of the daughter’s wedding—will it go ahead or won’t it?—than by the possibly apocalyptic global peril. Frank, while a center of calm, is no exception. Though he once went on terrifying bombing missions, his daughter’s wedding is something he’s never faced before, and, inside, he’s just a bit scared of it.
Frank is very much a man of his time. How difficult was it to inhabit his voice? Did you draw on memories of men of your father’s generation?
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