Acclaimed Northern Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty has taken 16 years to finish his latest novel. A lot of things just got in the way, he saysIn his jacket endorsement for Bernard MacLaverty’s Midwinter Break, the celebrated American novelist Richard Ford describes the new book as “much-anticipated”. Whatever backdrop, or even tone his books may share, he explains, “the story you have just finished is of little help to writing the next one”. And this one” – he points to the copy of Midwinter Break on the table between us – “is hefty material. I don’t think they are going to go back to slaying each other.”• Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty will be published by Jonathan Cape on 3 August (£14.99).

Source: The Guardian July 31, 2017 06:56 UTC