O brother, who art thou?

Interview with Samantha Harvey about her second novel "All is Song". Like her first, "The Wilderness", which dealt with Alzheimer's, it is narrated by a middle-aged man and has equally challenging subject matter - difficult family relationships and the love and incomprehension arising from the central character's eccentricities and moral perversity. Harvey, who studied philosophy at degree and postgraduate level, explains that it was inspired by Socrates, who was forced to kill himself after incurring the wrath of the state through his relentless questions, and that imagining what might happen to such a man were he alive today has occupied her thinking for many years. She expects a small readership - "I really only write about what is meaningful to me...I don't wish to write endlessly obscure novels, but I don't want to fashion myself to a market. Ultimately, if you write well enough you create your own market". (Quotes from original text)