Why London Bridges?
Two reasons. The really important one is that it’s a story about human “bridges” if you move to a big city on your own, one of the first things you think about is the impossibility of ever meeting anyone. Hundreds of people brush past you, and none of them says hello. So this is a story about how people meet; that is, metaphorically bridge the gap social activism, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, common workplace and somehow end up finding others they really like or, in the case of some people in the story, fall in love with. The other reason has to do with the way the story started. I heard a lecture whose key statement for me was that the upkeep of London Bridge was funded by an endowment set up by William the Conqueror in 1066 and was perhaps the oldest capital fund in the country. I was greatly struck by this and started thinking about the way that ancient trusts, because of the changing value of money, can sometimes generate incredibly large sums. Q) How did you research
