Interview: Kirsty Gunn

“I kind of don’t belong anywhere, and yet both places I belong,” says UK-based New Zealand writer Kirsty Gunn as she releases her fifth novel.

By Natasha Hay In Books

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7th July, 2012

Interview

When Kirsty Gunn gives a description, she draws you right in. Down the line from her home in London, in response to my question about whether it’s a good time to talk, being Saturday and all, she cheerily confirms, yes-yes, and effusively conjures up the languid evening outside and the busy day manning the church book/cake stall. Gunn’s two daughters are eager for the barbecue to celebrate summer’s belated arrival, the plants are waiting to be bedded and their naughty cat is bullying a baby squirrel. I see it all, down to the clinking ice cubes in her drink. Evoking a sense of place ...

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