Interview: Chris Cleave

Chris Cleave is a novelist who likes to write about people undergoing seemingly unimaginable bouts of endurance and suffering.

By Claire Allfree In Books

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16th June, 2012

If you see Chris Cleave at any of his forthcoming appearances in New Zealand, there’s a chance you will come away knowing a bit more about bicycles than you’d bargained for. “You have to be a performer when talking about your new novel these days,” says Cleave, who when you meet him appears far too mild-mannered to make a public exhibition of himself. “Particularly in America. I’ll be expected to show the audience a cycling helmet and everything.” Even if Cleave doesn’t stretch to discussing the finer points of lightweight aluminium, he will still have plenty of tales to tell ...

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