The next book of Sarah Waters

華老師可能為了配合電視宣傳，參加網路座談和讀者線上互動，全文在此：Live webchat: Sarah Waters

我特別注意她下一部作品的動態，各位，大好消息，故事發生在1920年代的倫敦，充滿拉子的愛恨情仇！（我最近在介紹20年代巴黎的拉子圈，算是誤打誤撞為華老師的新作預作功課．其實巴黎－倫敦兩地互有往來，巴黎故事告一段落，就要寫到倫敦）

OK, the next book... I'm right in the middle of it at the moment, so it's very much in my head. It's set in London in the 1920s, and is full of lesbian passion and angst – great fun, especially after The Little Stranger ...

華老師會重讀20年代的《寂寞之井》

The Well of Loneliness: I haven't read it for years, and must re-read it now that I'm working on the '20s

華老師的研究書單還包括維吉尼亞吳爾夫的小說、日記、信件，以及 Warwick Deeping，Robert Hichens筆下瀕臨崩潰的女人．(天呀，華老師要寫幾個神經質的拉子？）

For research – I'm reading lots of Virginia Woolf, which is fabulous. Novels, diaries and letters – every observation so brutally perfect - she's got a mind like a skewer! But I'm also reading middlebrow fiction from the '10s and '20s – authors who were fantastically popular in their day but very unfashionable now, like Warwick Deeping, and Robert Hichens (who's unexpectedly rather wonderful, with lots of 'women on the edge of a nervous breakdown'-type female characters)

她也提到對於The Night Watch電視版的看法，唉，我就不提了，等到寫影評，我自己來一次痛痛快快的清算．

華老師最後提到對一些女同影視的印象，《Portrait of a Marriage》肯定是研究20年代拉子故事的參考資料之一．她沒看過《Candy Bar Girls》(我沒看過）但看過《Lip Service》，還覺得《Lip Service》不錯呢．

TV-wise, Janet McTeer was pretty darn good as Vita S-W in Portrait of a Marriage. Gina Gershon was good in Bound. Fiction-wise - God, my mind's gone blank... Help me out, someone.

I missed the Candy Bar thing. I fear it will make me feel Very Old. I did enjoy Lip Service, which was good when it was daft but really very good when it got less daft: I wish someone had seen that there was a rather brilliant drama in there, struggling to get out.

The media - I just wish that lesbians and gay men would get represented in ordinary rather than sensational ways - in stories that aren't necessarily about sexuality at all.