I say to my best friend, Tex, that I want to be a writer. “A writer?” says Tex. Didn’t want to be a northern writer with a northern voice. They were set in a Felling that was very like the real Felling but that was also a fiction. And in my new novel, The Colour of the Sun, a boy named Davie wanders through his home town, Felling, on a summer’s day.

Source: The Guardian April 28, 2018 09:00 UTC