Some of you are going to be appalled that it has taken me till now to read Trollope’s Autobiography. And quite right too. If I’d read it in my mid-twenties instead of my mid-forties, I would have had two dozen novels under my belt by now instead of a measly five-and-a-half.

Would I be a better novelist if I found my inner Trollope?
Some of you are going to be appalled that it has taken me till now to read Trollope’s Autobiography.

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