Heh

One reason he was keen to finish the book was that he was running out of money. "I handed it in at the end of September, which was two years later than planned, so I had absolutely no money left. It was really getting quite hairy." Winning the Booker netted £50,000, there were foreign rights, a TV adaptation, and then the advance for this book, but even a novelist as successful as Hollinghurst – producing on average a book every five years – is not earning a vast sum annually.

The guru;

his new novel.