As Charlotte Wood was writing her latest book, she got cancer. As did her two sisters. But the acclaimed novelist is determined that her work is not despairing
says. “Whatever you’re trying to resolve in the book, or whatever. It does work: your mind can just wander.”
Charlotte Wood: ‘What I hope I’m doing is somehow making that sadness into something bearable, by shaping it, and combining it with other things.’It’s a September afternoon when we meet at Wood’s home in the city’s inner west. On the short stroll to the park, we chat over the sounds of birds and mild traffic, children finishing school, our footsteps on the concrete. Posters and painted signs urging people to vote yes hang in windows and on fences.
One of these essentials is Wood’s awareness of the physical – a current that pulls beneath all her fiction. “We are much more our bodies than we acknowledge,” she says. We crest the hill, discussing a scene in this latest novel where her narrator’s body makes itself suddenly and dramatically present, and pass a man whistling to his dog. “It’s about crisis,” Wood says. “I do think your body tells you things before your mind understands them.” Bodies are, she points out, “a great equaliser”.
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