Josh Silver: Fruit Fly

Join British novelist Josh Silver for a conversation about his novel that has everyone talking.

Facing writer’s block and a floundering literary career, Mallory makes a desperate decision to stay relevant: go gay, go sad and go dark. Those are the ingredients for a bestseller, after all. All she needs now is a story.

When she meets Leo, a young man struggling with addiction, Mallory believes she has found exactly the material she’s been looking for – a life that is authentically queer, heartbreakingly sad and undeniably marketable.

Told through alternating perspectives, Josh Silver’s Fruit Fly raises urgent questions about authenticity, identity and the commodification of someone else’s experiences. He joins host Michael Sun to discuss his debut adult novel described by Juno Dawson as ‘savage and darkly hilarious’.