at whole generation of successful authors —— jermaine greer.wanted to goa jermaine greer. yes, and i wanted to go a different way. i loved when i was from. i felt invested. go a different way. i loved when i was from. ifelt invested. ifelt unable to just leave it behind for the sake of a career. i thought, well, if i am into making art, if i am into making stories and getting these imaginary characters to get up and stand on their hind legs and walk around the park, which is the strange mystery of art, it is a pretty unlikely business, you get to make things that shouldn't feel real, seem real. iwanted make things that shouldn't feel real, seem real. i wanted to do that from home. and it is the mix of the imaginative and the real that strikes me about you because when we talk about your rootedness and determination to write about home, rather than go away, it is also about the use of language. because in the novel i've just read, your new one, the shepherd's hut, you know, it is deeply vernacular, it is so know, it is deeply vernacular, it is s