The second was slightly more meta.

“I was fascinated with everyone’s fascination with her real identity.”

Andrews says, though “[Florence’s] ambition is much more like desperation.”

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Andrews describes the interest from Hollywood as “so, so, so surreal…

I’m still sort of shocked that I finished it, to be honest!”

“It’s like very subtle warfare.”

And with that, she picks up her pen, still very much mightier than the sword.