Rick Morton

Yeah, go on.

Please.

I mean, I actually agree with Kate.

When I started reading the book, I literally went to that, you know, why so glum?

And I'm like, that is...

He's harassing a woman on a train, and it made me feel very awkward, and I knew how other people would read it because that's how I read it, right?

And I did struggle a lot with this first half of the book, and I couldn't work out whether I loved it or hated it.

I don't think I love it, but I do understand it, I think.

And I think part of it was that I, you know, what Andre is doing is showing that everyone has these desires.

And it might be uncomfortable for people to think about a 50- or 60-year-old man having incredibly youthful, sexual, almost perverted, certainly very horny desires.

And it felt weird and discombobulating for me to read that, but that's because I'm not that age.

And, you know, I feel like I have frozen in time at the age of 25, and I imagine I will feel like that for a very long time.

I think he feels like that too.

Well, I mean, I'll probably be a horny old man, Cathy.

But I also think he doesn't touch her inappropriately.

He does hold back.

He doesn't leer at her longer than acknowledging these simple things.

And she does, she is his match.

I mean, she is a kind of powerful, independent woman who makes all the moves.

She's the one that invites him to her father's house.