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"  I was around sixteen when a friend gave me Margaret Atwood&amp;#039;s Cat&amp;#039;s Eye, and I&amp;#039;ve read it for inspiration once or twice a year ever since. The way the narrative plays with tense and time is amazing. I love books about people remembering\u2014examining the ways we interact with our pasts is something I do in my own fiction, and my characters are as obsessed with their memories and the reliability of those memories as Elaine, the narrator in Cat&amp;#039;s Eye, is. And the way the violent relationships between little girls is portrayed was startling, disturbing and, to me, very true to life. How Cordelia&amp;#039;s eyes are described, two or three times, as &amp;quot;metallic&amp;quot;\u2014it&amp;#039;s a deliberate repetition that captures perfectly the danger she represents to the young Elaine. Jenn Ashworth&amp;#039;s debut novel A Kind of Intimacy is available now. Photo: C. Martin Figura "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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