The author on staging his deeply personal Manchester novel in the city to which it belongsNext month the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester stages a dramatisation of my novel The Mighty Walzer, by Simon Bent, so in an important sense it's his not mine. But I can't pretend I don't feel possessive of it still. And I'm fighting against feeling sentimental about the staging of it, too. Manchester " where it belongs! It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:53AM on June 25, 2016