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Interview: Owen Sheers - Independent Online Edition > Features
Owen Sheers says Second World War plans for a British resistance provided inspiration for his début novel.
I don’t know how this slipped past the radar but it did. Owen Sheers, whose debut poetry collection, The Blue Book, was very warmly received and whose debut non-fiction travel memoir, The Dust Diaries, won Welsh Book of the Year, has just released his debut novel, Resistance, into the world.
I haven’t read all the interview as I didn’t want it to spoil my enjoyment of the book but the phrase that did interest me was Owen described Resistance like this, “This is an alternative, imagined story; it’s retrospective science fiction.”
I wonder how genre it is going to be?
I’m reading it straight after Rant by Chuck Palahniuk.
Look for reviews of both soon.
