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It’s hard to find the words to describe writer’s block

     By Rowan Pelling Does literature have any finer representation of the brain-fog known as writer’s block than James Mortmain – aka “Father” – in Dodie Smith’s great coming-of-age novel I Capture the Castle? Mortmain’s first book, Jacob Wrestling, was a critically acclaimed, if “difficult”, work, but he lost inspiration following a prison term … Continue reading It’s hard to find the words to describe writer’s block