Stuart Evers 'We either look into the gutter or at the upper classes'
about 5 years in The guardian
The award-winning novelist on his debt to ‘kitchen-sink’ dramas, why the family is everyone’s first taste of politics, and the paranoia of the nuclear age
Stuart Evers’s acclaimed debut collection Ten Stories About Smoking won the London book award in 2011. His new novel The Blind Light is an ambitious fictional account of 60 years in the intertwined lives of two soldiers from very different backgrounds, who meet during national service in 1959 and raise families in the shadow of the nuclear threat.
You made your name as a writer of sharp, spare short stories; your novel is 536 pages long. When did you start working on it?I can tell you exactly. Six years, 11 months and five days ago. The idea came when I went to visit a place called Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker with my mum and dad and my wife. It is what was known as a regional seat of government; in the event of a nuclear bomb dropping, the local dignitaries would be rushed to it. It’s now a visitor centre. Continue reading...
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