Lunch with English Novelist John Wain

Steve Newman Writer
Sep 5, 2018 · 4 min read

“ I was never very angry you know…”

John Wain — An ‘Angry’ Young Man. johnwain.com

In the mid-1980s I was living in Warwick. My first marriage had crumbled and I was renting a small attic flat in a 19th century terraced house. I would often sit at a small table by a window that overlooked a hundred back gardens, watching as many cats. I would read — mostly plays in those days — or try and write a play of my own on a small portable typewriter.

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