Set in modern-day London, Evenings and Weekends follows a gay young professional and his pregnant best friend as they grapple with the realisation that they’re about to take very different paths
NL: What did you want to say about queerness in the book? OM: A few things. I think a lot of characters in the novel, broadly speaking, desire to live a more adventurous life – in many ways a queerer life. But they’re variously limited in their capacity to do that. For example, there’s a sort of polyamorous conundrum in the novel, and I was interested in exploring the practical barriers to polyamory in terms of time and money.
But the book also features a cameo from another, much more old-school LGBTQ+ venue: Central Station in King’s Cross. OM: Central Station appeals to some sort of nostalgic impulse in me. I think it’s the relationship that place has not just to London’s queer history and lineage, but also to the history and lineage of London more broadly. I mean, particularly the fact that it’s in King’s Cross, an area that has been so aggressively redeveloped in recent years – or at least parts of it have.
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