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* '''BB: ''The Purple Shadow'' describes both London and Paris very vividly. Are you a city person or a country person?'''
CB: I don't use real people as models - live in London and spend time wandering there, in Paris and New York. A flâneur, like Colin Mallory in the characters are entirely made up – but imagination necessarily draws on experiencebook. For example That said, I enjoy the countryside and ramblings in The Purple ShadowDorset, gallery-owner Madame Ducasse Sussex and her assistant Véronique are, I think, people you would recognise on Hampshire have found their way into the streets of Paris but they are not based on any specific individualsnovels too.
* '''BB: Some of your novels have a slightly supernatural flavour. Do you believe in otherworldly things yourself?'''
