In life some things are better left unsaid

Screenwriter, playwright and director Gerry Stembridge admits to having doubts that he had what it takes to be a novelist, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

Unspoken. Gerard Stembridge. Old Street; £12.99 unavailable as an ebook

FIRST, to clear up what Gerry Stembridge’s latest book is not. It is not, despite being set in the city where he grew up at the time he grew up, a memoir. Stembridge has no desire to go all autobiographical.