12 July 2021
Jonathan Crane on capturing a varied and fragmented society in fiction
My novel We Need To Talk is in many ways a consequence of the life I lived through my thirties. For a decade I moved around from town to town, itinerant and rootless. I lived in countless house-shares, in backpackers' hostels; I worked more bad jobs than I care to remember, in pubs, clubs, warehouses, offices, gardens. I was seeing life, and society, from different angles, meeting people who confounded my expectations, who found their own ways of negotiating life, and who carried on through difficult times.
