I want to make sure that all the questions people ever asked – and I’m going to be coming back to you guys about this at some point – all those questions are answered. It’s huge in terms of its narrative, it’s huge in terms of its number of characters, it’s huge in the way I want to wrap it up. Revelations : "There’s a complete narrative."Ĭlive : "That’s right but because of one or two things – I used to know a great cook called Prue Leith – Prue told me something once that I thought was very important, she said, ‘I’ve always thought that any meal will work as long as you give them a good dessert.’ What is the pertinence of this? Here I am facing Book Five, the final book of Abarat and it is huge. The room I’m sitting in at the moment has piles of handwritten manuscript which is obviously Deep Hill, which I guess is now about 1,200 pages of handwritten stuff, and hundreds and hundreds of Abarat illustrations, so what I’m trying to do right now is go through these many illustrations and obviously the paintings here which have not yet been seen and I can start to put them together with Abarat Four which needs one more draft, otherwise it’s finished."
In the interview he updates readers that he is in recovery, feeling better, and has a lot of work left to do!īelow I've isolated the part of the interview that focuses on Abarat and what's coming next:Ĭlive: "And finally, I’ve been working on the Abarat books, the two remaining Abarat books.
This April (April 9-24, 2020), Clive did a massive multi-day interview with Revelations which included an update on the next installment in the Abarat series!įor those who haven't kept up with Clive over the last decade and have been wondering why book 4 has been taking so long: in 2012 Clive experienced toxic shock syndrome after a trip to the dentist and has since been very unwell and in a coma twice.
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