![]() I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. What makes them all Paullina Simons books? ![]() And The Bronze Horseman is an historical novel. ![]() ![]() Your third book, Eleven Hours was a psychological suspense thriller. Your second book, Red Leaves, was a murder mystery. Your first book, Tully, was a rich, emotional saga. I don’t belong in Russia now anymore than I belong in Texas or Long Island, or Kansas, or Brooklyn, but when I think of things that affect me: of the songs that I love, or books that I adore, or foods that comfort me, or language that soothes me, invariably, those things are all Russian. The longest I’ve ever lived anywhere was the Fifth Soviet apartment which is one of the settings in The Bronze Horseman. But since I was ten years old, I have never lived in any one location longer than two years. Russian is what I am, American is what I have become, English is what I happily was and fondly remember. My blessing and my curse is that I have lived in so many places that I find myself easy to attach and easy to detach from all of them. You grew up in Russia, then lived in both the United Kingdom and the United States. ![]() We met up with Paullina Simons to talk in more detail about The Bronze Horseman and about her life in general. ![]()
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