“I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.”

Meaning

This reads as a creative intention more than a plot promise. It can be taken to mean that the writer wanted women to be central to the story’s energy, not decorative, and that strength would shape the novel’s emotional balance. It lands for a reader choosing between a cast that merely includes women and one that gives them real force in the narrative.

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Originally said in English.

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