He talks to Aine Toner about writing and his interest in authority figures
Phil Harrison
Phil Harrison’s second novel Silverback demonstrates the gossamer fine line between violence and fragility. Starting with a courtroom as surgeon James Fechner sits as part of a jury in a murder case — that of Robert Rusting on trial for his father’s murder — this is a tale of being drawn to something up until that moment not experienced, and the potential change that comes when an unlikely friendship forms. Fechner inserts himself into Rusting’s world. It’s a compulsion; he cannot prevent it.
“Especially at the start, I was really hunting to find what the book was, I didn’t really know,” says Phil speaking to Review in a Belfast city centre hotel.
