It's an experience we're all familiar with. You're asked a question, you answer it as best you can on the spot, and then later it comes to you what you should have said. Kate Long is describing one such occasion. Over at the Picador Blog, she tells of a gig she did at which the issue came up of characters 'behaving badly', and whether the writer is obliged to 'show those characters' crimes catching up with them'. Kate now gives the answer she'd like to have given then.
A novel is not a public information film.Quite so. Fiction would be extremely dreary if no one ever got away with bad behaviour. Worse still, it wouldn't be true to the world. I liked the title of the post: 'Warning: mad wives should not be kept in attics'.