'I'VE DONE THERAPY BUT BOOKS WORK BETTER'

The Boy Swallows Universe author talks about writing his most personal book yet

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Tell us about the new book, Gravity Let Me Go...

It's a story about a true crime journalist called Noah Cork who's so obsessed with the true crime scoop of his lifetime that he's in danger of missing an even bigger scoop and that's the one unfolding inside his very own home. It's a marriage story buried inside a murder mystery.

What inspired you to write this story?

Stories come from the weirdest places and I was thinking about the moon and the idea that it's trapped inside the earth's gravitational pull and it's trying to get away from earth. But if it did then it would mean the earth's destruction. And it got me vaguely excited to write a story about marriage and to apply that big principle.

Are you like Noah?