Mark Billingham, Amanda Craig and Douglas Board will be among the first novelists to tackle the EU referendum and its wider implications
When a local councillor knocked on the door of Amanda Craig’s Devon bolthole, the novelist learned something that helped her realise, 10 years later, that the vote for Brexit would be a certainty and not a vain hope among Little Englanders.
“He came round begging for us to give work to someone he knew,” she recalled. When asked why he was so desperate, the councillor replied: “People don’t realise, but in this part of the country we are poorer than Romania.”
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