The Imagination of a Novelist

The group that I describe in the book, it's a fictional group, but it's one that I've assembled to represent all of the different ambitions and hopes and dreams. It must be a good sort of 200 people, I suppose. Let's hear a reading now where all of these fictional hopefuls come together and have to introduce themselves. Right. Well, I must have taught about 12 or 15 of them, something like that, over about 20 years. They were Zoe and Kissy, the girls from the station, two friends who wanted to write about festival culture,. Sam had jacked in his job as a barman to spend a year travelling in Southeast Asia and hope to