‘I’m 51, I can say what I want’: Leone Ross has overcome her fears

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‘I’m 51, I can say what I want’: Leone Ross has overcome her fears

More than 15 years in the writing, Ross’ new novel This One Sky Day is a glorious achievement. So why did it take so long?There is the difficult second novel, but for some writers there is also the far more difficult third novel. And so it was for Leone Ross, who in the 1990s published two well-received works of fiction, All the Blood Is Red and Orange Laughter. The first, a visceral group portrait of four women that moved between London and Jam…