Andy Mulligan: How I wrote Trash in 10 days straight

The author of Trash on how some stories are biters that you just can’t shake off – and how he watched the movie adaptation by Stephen Daldry through a mist of tears

I imagine some books are long in the thinking-about, and I have heard about writers in their lonely attics labouring for years on some reluctant tale that just won’t get written or finished… but there are others that leap out and bite you right on the bum, as it were – like dogs – and you can’t shake them off.

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