6/28/2023 0 Comments Labyrinth kate moss![]() ![]() When I’m writing, the floor is covered – early drafts, redrafts, typescripts, proofs. On the desk, the lamp is a present from a very old friend, as is the blue and black ceramic bowl, which is filled with cards from my children, scraps of paper, old notebooks. On the walls at the moment are framed pictures of Rennes-les-Bains, where Sepulchre is set, and Tarot cards. I use the tiny laptop on my desk for novels only – no email, no journalism, no internet, no administration – and I hoard only books and paintings relevant to the project I’m working on. In the summer, the fabulous 80-foot copper beech, wine-coloured crimson leaves, a horse chestnut and sweet chestnut trees, turned from green to gold and shaded the room beautifully. ![]() One window faces west (the other south), but since I write very early in the morning, beginning when it’s still dark and often cold (hence the thick bedsocks on the armchair, brought back from Lithuania by my husband last winter), it suits my working life to be driven from my desk by the sun in the afternoon. As I’ve got older, I realise all I need is a view, light and to be up high. Although I was seduced by the idea of the need for a room of one’s own, it is the atmosphere of a place, rather than somewhere unique and private, that matters most. ![]() The walls were already painted a deep red, so it felt a comfortable place in which to set up shop for a while. This little study, on the first floor, was one of only a couple of habitable rooms. Kate Mosse was also featured in the Guardian’s Writers Rooms series in 2007. ![]()
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