Viva Lewes Issue #151 April 2019

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ON THIS MONTH: LITERATURE Linda Grant Don’t say the B word There’s a powerful word which doesn’t appear in Linda Grant’s disturbing new novel A Stranger City, but which informs the tone and direction of its whole narrative. The book, which she started writing in the summer of 2016, is coming out in May. I telephone her at her house in the north-east of the city in question, London, having had the chance to read a proof copy. How, I wonder, has she been describing the book to people who ask? “It’s underpinned by a growing sense of xenophobia that I have witnessed,” she says. “It’s about a bunch of people moving through the present times we’re in, finding that the ground has shifted beneath their feet.” The book is set in “the present, and the very near future – the next year or two.” It starts at the funeral of a middle-aged woman. There are no friends or relatives, just a vicar, a film crew, some funeral directors, and the copper who has been dealing with her case. She’s been found, drowned, in the Thames, seven months before, and no one knows who she is. Grant’s modus operandi is interesting. She’s not a great planner, she says. “I begin by writing something and then thinking ‘where might this take me, where could this lead, who are these people?’ I’m a bit like the reader, really… I don’t know what this is about, I don’t know where this is going, and it’s the discovery of that that’s how the novel gets written.” ‘These people’ are an ensemble of Londondwelling characters, including a PR man who is not all he seems, a half Iranian carpetseller, an Irish nurse, a gay writer, an elderly Jewish couple, and so on. We don’t know it immediately, but their lives have all been touched by the unknown woman, as well as wider political events. The funeral scene has been in her head from 1990, when, then a journalist, she witnessed the pauper’s burial of a drowned homeless woman, whose identity was unknown. “Then, [in June 2016] I witnessed a fight between two Big Issue sellers, one of whom said to the other ‘go home’.” This was her bingo moment of inspiration for the book, and she recreates the scene early on. In other circumstances, Grant’s characters might have wandered through a different narrative, but the tense political backdrop of the book’s gestation period has influenced its tone. As a reader, I found it disturbingly dystopic. “As things moved forward and became more uncertain,” she says, “I was adding more uncertainty to [the characters’] lives.” I speak to Grant on March 1st, 28 days before Britain is scheduled to leave the EU. Does she think we’ll really see train-loads of deportees being transported to prison ships in the Channel? “I don’t think I’ve been more worried in my lifetime about how things are going politically,” she says. “We’re clearly at the beginning of a period of great political instability in this country”. Alex Leith Linda Grant, Lewes Literary Society, All Saints, 2nd April, 8pm. lewesliterarysociety.co.uk Photo by Charlie Hopkinson 37
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