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Bobby Palmer

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BOBBY PALMER is an author and journalist whose writing has appeared in GQ, Esquire, Men's Health, Cosmopolitan and more. He is co-host of the literary podcast BOOK CHAT with Pandora Sykes.

His debut novel, ISAAC AND THE EGG, was an instant Saturday Times bestseller, selling 50,000 copies in its first year of publication. A Prima and Woman & Home 'Best Book of 2022', the novel appeared on BBC Radio 4's Open Book, featured as Guardian 'Audiobook of the Week', and was chosen by Dawn O'Porter as part of her 'Dawn Loves' book club with WHSmith.

Bobby's second novel, SMALL HOURS, published in March 2024. His third, MAIN CHARACTERS, will publish simultaneously in the UK and US in July 2026. ...more

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Hi Bobby, I'm half way through reading Small Hours (as a NetGalley ARC) and loving it. I'm finding Gerry's inner monologue quite poignant and moving, due to parallels with my own father. I would love to think that my father's inner monologue was similar to Gerry's in some way. I wondered whether this inner life was based on research, life experience, or heartfelt hopeful optimism? Thanks Ian

Bobby Palmer That’s really touching to hear, thank you. The answer is all of the above!

Gerry’s character originally came out of a desire for this story to explore…moreThat’s really touching to hear, thank you. The answer is all of the above!

Gerry’s character originally came out of a desire for this story to explore memory, and communication, and how both can deceive us – through two male characters who struggle to speak to one another, and who both have differing interpretations of events in their past. So Gerry isn’t an “autobiographical” character per se, though I did draw on certain real-life experiences to colour him in.

For that same reason, and for the purpose of artistic license, I decided not to specifically name Gerry’s condition, although I did do lots of research into dementia and Alzheimer’s. I’m indebted to the factual help I received from the brilliant charity Dementia UK, as well as resources from Age UK and the Alzheimer’s Society, and the writings of the dementia campaigner Wendy Mitchell. All of these allowed me to create Gerry’s mind as I thought it might be, especially leaning into the places where the boundaries between present and past, experience and memory, are broken down.

In essence, Gerry is living his entire life at once, and I wanted to try and present some of the wonder of that. So yes, there’s a degree of wishful thinking... but I like to think it’s informed wishful thinking!(less)

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“Reality is fragile. All it takes is a gentle tap to break its shell.”
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“The first time Isaac heard Mary laugh, he felt his centre of gravity shifting.”
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“His eyebrows have relaxed, and suddenly, his face does indeed look like one that could yearn, one that could find itself bewitched.”
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