Summary
John Le Carre's youngest son is making big waves as a novelist. Nick Harkaway talks to DAVID ROBINSON
NICK HARKAWAY IS SITTING IN THE living room of his house in Hampstead, remembering a childhood journey. It's one he made many times, sitting in the back of his father's car on the seven-hour trip from London to Cornwall, when the A303 was an even longer and more winding road. His father would tell him stories all the way, always the same but always different - about the family's old English sheepdog and its adventures as it set out to follow them. There'd be rabbit colonies, tunnels, maybe cowboys, but everything made sense because that's the thing about his father's stories: they always did.See the full content of this document
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Master of His Own Voice
Why is he telling me this, and why am I asking? Because Harkaway has just written a debut novel of the kind that comes along only once every couple of years, overflowing with imagination yet powered by the kind of cleverly twisting plot that marks him out as a master storyteller. And because that's exactly what his father, John le Carre, the man behind the wheel spinning those still-remembered childhood stories, is too.
So there's an obvious string of questions hanging over this interview: wha...See the full content of this document
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