The Apple TV+ adaptation of his bestselling Slough House spy series is currently airing season 2.
Mick Herron’s career sounds like a classic redemption story: Years of hard work, a bruising setback, and then, finally, success with his Slough House spy novels.“I feel a kind of separation between myself as a person and as an author. I can see that this author’s story is unusual, and I’m very happy if people find good things to take away from it. But for me,” Herron says, “I was never particularly downhearted.
“But I realized that, in fact, we’re all qualified to write about certain things because it can happen anywhere at any time; we’re all involved, like it or not. So it’s a perfectly valid viewpoint to write about these huge events just from the point of view of somebody who doesn’t necessarily know very much about why they’re happening – but the fact they are happening is all-encompassing.”
“I’m perfectly happy to defend the underappreciated, but I’m mostly defending the incompetent. I will defend the failures – because we all are,” says Herron, who recalls being told early on his characters were unlikeable. “I found that quite odd. Who wants to write about flawless people? I don’t know any. I’m not one.”
“My sympathies are for those who make bad decisions and have to suffer the consequences,” Herron says of the Slough House team. “Those of us who are living very privileged lives generally have the luxury of not being made to pay for our mistakes in the way that people who aren’t as lucky have. Because we all make errors all the time. So, yes, my heart is with those who struggle.”
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