Which was?
Fatherless at six, because he'd been ethnically cleansed.
Motherless a year later, when a mortar dropped on some market queue in Sarajevo.
Sabira managed to survive somehow, prostituting herself eventually...
..until she arrived here in Oxford as Marina from Prague.
Ordered over the internet like a commodity.
No longer knowing who she truly is.
We used to meet up from time to time, to discuss what it was like to be a Muslim in this land.
Did you disapprove of the way she was living?
Yes.
More than you can imagine, I imagine.
But I'm hardly the Taliban.
What did you think of Dorian Crane?
We got on.
I enjoyed his company.
His academic work was derivative, though, much like his literary efforts.
Even the title, Boxlands, is a nod to your namesake, Inspector.
At the age of eight, CS Lewis wrote a story called Boxen.
About an imaginary world based on his toys, with um...
King Bunny and Golliwog the servant.
Didn't he bury his toys when his father died?
Yes.
Professor, did Marina, Sabira, say why she was in the Randolph hotel?
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