'I'll be watching The Mighty Walzer with my head in my hands'
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…