Music plays a significant role in Different Class. How important is music in your life? Which genre(s) of music do you listen to? Why did you decide to feature David Bowie’s music so prominently throughout the novel?

I’ve been a musician all my life. I still play in a band, and though I don’t actually write to music, I often use music to set the tone of the book I’m writing. This time, I used the Pulp album Different Class, which is appropriate on many levels, but the musical references within the story (David Bowie, Pink Floyd, etc.) are more appropriate to the era I was writing about (as well as reflecting some of my own musical tastes).

What inspired your choices of the Latin quotes that open each section?

I chose what I thought was most appropriate, as well as what Straitley would have recommended.

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Joanne Harris is one of our best-loved and most versatile novelists. She first appeared on the scene with the bestselling Chocolat (made into an Oscar-nominated film with Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp), which turned into the sensuous Lansquenet trilogy (with The Lollipop Shoes and Peaches for Monsieur le Curé). She has since written acclaimed novels in such diverse genres as fantasy based on Norse myth (Runemarks, Rune­light, The Gospel of Loki) and the Malbry cycle of dark psychological thrillers (Gentlemen and Players, Blueeyedboy, and now Different Class).

Born in Barnsley, of an English father and a French mother, she spent fifteen years as a teacher before (somewhat reluctantly) becoming a full-time writer. In 2013, she was awarded an MBE. She lives in Yorkshire, plays bass in a band first formed when she was sixteen, works in a shed in her garden, spends far too much time online, and occasionally dreams of faking her own death and going to live in Hawaii.

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