Melvin Burgess
...on how he might have written The Wind in the Willows...
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
“You know when you start writing you kind of pick a direction – my direction being edgy and teenage and thoughtful kinds of books. This is really the opposite: it’s a real feelgood book. It’s all about home, and it’s one of the first books I really loved. There are times when I sit down and I’d really love to write a great, comforting, humorous thing, set in the past…except if I did it, I think the stoats would probably win and Toad would be out abusing tadpoles… ”
