theory. More recent works Solar (2010), Sweet Tooth (2012) and The Children Act (2014). Solar – ecocritical novel. Female authors of the millennium. Jeanette Winterson, Meera Syal, Zadie Smith. Historical fiction dominated in the women’s writing of the pre-‐millennium. Escapist in nature and does not romanticise the past. Constructed fictional illusion then uncover that illusion, i.e. create fiction the make statements about the fiction (remind the reader that they are reading a book). Turning away from contemporary subjects
I imagined him by the shore, his skin sparkling like the sea. It wouldn't matter how long we had to hide. To be trapped in a hotel room with him would be a kind of heaven. So many questions I still had for him. I could talk to him forever, never sleeping, never leaving his side. I could see his face so clearly now... almost hear his voice. And, despite all the horror and hopelessness, I was fleetingly happy. So involved was I in my escapist daydreams, I lost all track of the seconds racing by. "Hey, what was the number?" The cabbie's question punctured my fantasy, letting all the colors run out of my lovely delusions. Fear, bleak and hard, was waiting to fill the empty space they left behind. "Fifty-eight twenty-one." My voice sounded strangled. The cabbie looked at me, nervous that I was having an episode or something. "Here we are, then." He was anxious to get me out of his car, probably hoping I wouldn't ask for my change.
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