Tell us about your new novel, Injury Time.
It’s about a privileged man whose life is thrown into disarray by a sexual accusation from the past, but it’s also about money, class, identity and, I suppose, guilt. It’s set in a small Northern Irish town just after Brexit. I wanted to explore the Protestant merchant mindset, which doesn’t often feature in Irish fiction.
Your 2012 debut, Jammy Dodger, was longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize for New Fiction.
Jammy Dodger is about a literary hoax in the late 1980s Belfast arts world. It’s also a satirical coming-of-age novel, celebrating that all-too-brief interlude when we’re young and invincible.
Although set in the North, the political takes a back seat to the personal.
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