'Liberal white men have had a difficult decade'

The English writer discusses capturing the anxiety of the middle-aged, heterosexual man, in his Dickensian novel set in the digital age

- Saurabh Sharma

How did you conceive of Caledonian Road, and its wide cast of characters? I had been thinking about this book for a long time. I lived in Kings Cross in the 1990s, when I was in my 20s, and I was always overwhelmed by London as a place: a multiplicity of human beings from all over the world, their varied economic statuses, life experiences, and this multifarious, multicultural road, Caledonian Road, stretching up through North London, that really interested me.