Jane Gardam
...stupid really...how could I, Jane Gardam, have written Robinson Crusoe?
...the acclaimed short story writer on the book she wishes she had written...
Jane Gardam is the acclaimed short story writer who has won a number of awards and been shrtlisted for the Booker Prize. But what's the story she wishes that she had written herself?
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
"There are so many books - how can you choose one? I got it down to two, but the one I chose in the end was Robinson Crusoe. I became absolutely immersed in the book for a year when I was writing Crusoe's Daughter - I thought it was a tremendously interesting book, with a curious man writing it. I now think he was the great rock on which the Engliosh novel was based. It's a glorious work."
