Nabokov on coincidence

Since it’s the birthday of Vladimir Nabokov, here’s a little quote from this great writer.  “A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish – but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I…

Co-inky-dinks

Or, to give them their proper name, coincidences… Co-inky-dinks is what they get re-christened by 7-year-old Benjamin, brother to Laureth, the heroine of my new book, She Is Not Invisible. Laureth and Benjamin’s dad is a writer, a writer who’s obssessed by two things: coincidences, and the number 354. He’s been trying, and failing, to…