 The young character Nell, I was really taken and intrigued by a kind of move in modern female writing in novels about difficult material and about ideas of both being enthralled, being obsessed, being submissive and being masochistic. And I thought this is, you know, French women used to write about it back in the day and you'd kind of say... Irish women would never write about it. Yeah, I think Edna O'Brien did write about some of it, yeah. Yeah, I think she did.