Exclusive interview with Maggie Gee, author of fifteen books, thirteen of which are novels, including her latest, Blood, which is published by Fentum Press.

Maggie Gee talks to Georgia de Chamberet about being born to working-class parents and climbing into an uneasy place between classes; winning a major open scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford where she did an MA in English literature and an MLitt on Surrealism in England; breaking into the publishing game; being selected as of the original Granta 20 Best of Young British Novelists in 1983; why there is still such reticence on the part of the dominant ‘white’ literary establishment to address, through literature, the tensions of race and class in contemporary British society; co-founding the “Empathy and Writing” cross-disciplinary research group at Bath Spa University; and much more besides.

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