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The bestselling author, 40, on avoiding Twitter, the anxieties of parenthood and the memory of a childhood accident that’s shaped his life

Andrew Hankinson

 13 May 2017 14.00 BST

As a child I was encouraged to participate in adult conversations, encouraged to go out into the world and assume a role that runs the risk of making a kid very annoying. Because my brothers are also writers, there’s an assumption it was a kind of intellectual home. I don’t know that it was. Did we have more books than my friends? Probably not. Did we talk about literature? No.