Alan Hollingshurst Reads from ‘The Stranger’s Child’ at Outwrite Nov. 26
‘I wanted to write a book about time,’ says award-winning British writer Alan Hollingshurst about his latest book, ‘The Stranger’s Child‘…
Hollingshurst comes to Outwrite October 26th to read from and sign the novel. ‘The Stranger’s Child’ is his much-anticipated first novel in seven years.
‘Wanted to write a book about World War I that didn’t actually have the first World War in it. The more I thought about it, the more I realized I wanted the story of these people’s lives and their reputations to be traced much further on throughout the century.’
‘I get a lot of pleasure from writing but I’m very slow. This book took me four and a half years to write. It was originally going to be in two parts, but decided not to do that. It has a huge time span that covers 95 years.’
‘I have a routing of self-isolation when I write. I draw a line through my diary for a month or so. I wish I could integrate writing more into the pattern of my everyday life, but this is the only way I seem to be able to do it, by this rather extreme measure.’