Chloe Hooper is the author of The Arsonist: A mind on fire and The Tall Man: Death and life on Palm Island and two novels, A Child’s Book of True Crime and The Engagement. Her most recent book is Bedtime Story.
If you could go anywhere tomorrow, where would it be, and why?
Antarctica. Surely visiting the South Pole would tick off all the qualities of the sublime, being of great physical, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual and – as we hasten the ice shelves’ destruction – moral interest. I need to find a way there before it melts.
What’s your idea of hell?
The blithe way I wrote that last sentence.
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