![]() ![]() ![]() Shy, he says, “might not be able to express himself very well but his political compass is impeccable”. The author speaks of his characters as if he didn’t create them but discovered them in his dreams. ![]() Porter explores the boy’s past through the detached voices of others: his anguished mother, a ghost, and the staff at the school for troubled children where he lives. His latest novel is the story of a disenfranchised teenager named Shy making a morbid pilgrimage to take his own life. “I don’t have to steer my ship back towards what I want to do.” “I’ve been lucky enough that that’s always been my starting point: making the work I love,” he says. The now-bestseller has been translated into 27 languages and adapted into a celebrated stage play.ĭespite his debut’s unexpected success, the pressure hasn’t changed how Porter writes. His 2015 debut novel Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, about a father and his two sons mourning the loss of their matriarch in the company of a cacophonous crow, was bought by its American publisher for £1,000. It was, says Porter, “the first time I’d done no drawings or research”, but he has grown used to the unexpected. ![]()
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