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| Interview with Andrea Levy by Debbie Taylor I'M in one of those endless London sidestreets, lined with Victorian houses like odd teeth: some with grubby facades and soggy cardboard boxes in the front gardens; others gentrified with reclaimed front doors and wooden Venetian blinds. Andrea Levy’s house is one of the smart ones – she used to be a graphics designer and still helps out sometimes when her designer husband is up against a deadline. She ushers me in and proffers tea and toast. Her novel Small Island has won two of the most prestigious literary prizes in the business and is riding high in the bestseller charts, but she’s not the sort to put on airs. ‘Isn’t it great?’ she says gleefully when I congratulate her. ‘Canapés and champagne - I love ’em! It’s all such fun at the moment.’ We settle into a little back sitting-room where the floor-to-ceiling bookshelves are interspersed with an illuminated display of religious icons – ‘my husband’s history of world religion’ – and discuss how her ‘breakthrough novel’ has affected her life. ‘I did a reading a few weeks ago,’ she says, ‘and usually I have ten people there sheltering from the rain. This time they had to relay the sound outside… For the whole interview, read Issue 25 » Subscribe! Go to » Andrea Levy's Method |
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For more on ANDREA LEVY, go to www.andrealevy.co.uk
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