“London was never even on my radar,” Gavin McCrea tells me on Zoom. “If I don’t have a sort of desire, a feeling of desire when I’m writing, something is missing … And I’m not necessarily talking about sexual desire. “If I hadn’t written those books before, there’s no way it could have come out in this way,” McCrea says. “But I did want the question to be the extent to which Rousseau is a figment of Gavin’s imagination … To what extent is Gavin writing Rousseau? To what extent is Rousseau writing Gavin?

Source: The Irish Times March 03, 2026 09:56 UTC