THREE INTO ONE DOES GO


TIODG is about 50% memoir, and 50% fiction. Why write such a hybrid book? Well, allow me to quote from my own Introduction:


A memoir, it seems to me, would be a sort of enhanced diary: today I did this, and then I did that, and afterwards this other thing happened. No doubt this would make interesting reading if the writer led an interesting life, so that ‘this’, ‘that’ and ‘the other’ were interesting events. For most people—myself included—personal involvement in such interesting events are few and far between. So, not just a memoir. I decided early on that I would have to make things up, to keep the reader on the page.