![]() I was almost trying to do a David Attenborough, but instead of a David Attenborough about whales or sea turtles or gazelles, it was about humans. ![]() It is, as the title suggests, about humans. It was me doing a sort of karaoke Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and it took me a lot of time while I was editing The Humans to actually realise that the heart of the book isn’t about space. The first version was very science fiction. “To be honest, The Humans was the book that was probably most edited. It’s when I got the balance first right, largely. I think people appreciated it because I was trying to be truthful and do something different but also be silly at the same time. “I had my cake and ate it because it’s got humour in it, but it’s also got moments of darkness and moments of philosophising in it and it was a very self-indulgent book. With The Humans, I feel, I shook off a lot of my earlier pretentiousness and actually just really wrote what I wanted to write. No-one had really heard of me in the early half of my career and I was trying to work out what sort of writer I was. My first books were sort of under-the-radar books. Matt Haig’s Inside Story: “It’s the first time I wrote feeling truly confident as a writer. ![]()
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