I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at...
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling fountains splashing. Weirs waterfalls tumbling gushing.