Highlights
鈥淚t wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out鈥
Alex Wheatle on how he learned to be comfortable with feelings of vulnerability as a man
- 鈥淚t wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out鈥
- "Audiobooks on the walk - tick!"
- "I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
- "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
- 鈥淏lack fatherhood is definitely something we don鈥檛 see enough鈥
- "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
- "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
- "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
- "This book presented another kind of representation"
- "The library was my salvation"
- "It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
- 鈥淏oth me and him were in tears鈥
- "It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
- "I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"