Susan Hill: ‘The woman thing, I thought, Heavens!’ Photograph: Linda Nylind

 

Interview

Susan Hill: ‘I am not pro-Trump! Really? Do people think that of me?’

The novelist caused a stir this week by accusing a bookshop of anti-Trump censorship. Even Michael Gove waded in. But she’d rather talk about her new book, and leaving her husband of 40 years for a woman

Danuta Kean
Saturday 4 March 2017

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usan Hill barrels around the corner to our table, which is tucked away in a noisy alcove of the bar at the Covent Garden hotel in London. She looks pleased to see me, if a little apprehensive. That is not surprising: this week, she set off a storm of outrage that had her running for cover as much from her publishers, Chatto & Windus, as from the keyboard critics who piled in on social media.