My parents thought that accountancy would be a good subject to study, as there would be a decent career at the end of it. I was the “clever one” in my family and destined to be the first to attend university. Joseph Heller, especially for Catch-22, which I studied at secondary school.
While my friends were hanging around street corners waiting for trouble, I would be sequestered in my bedroom, writing stories influenced by Burgess’s short sharp novel. There was a moral purpose to it the language was fascinating. A whole bunch of pulp paperbacks with titles such as Skinhead or Suedehead used to be passed around the school playground, but I felt that A Clockwork Orange was of a different order of merit.
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