Kate Tempest: ‘It’s difficult to look at words as pegs to hang a plot from’

She has written poetry, plays and an album – but the greatest challenge has been her new novelAt the beginning of an idea, there is the feeling that it could go anywhere, but it usually wants to be expressed in a particular way. I am interested in people who speak many languages; I always ask friends or acquaintances who do, if there is a moment when a thought is pure thought, before they decide in which language to express it. The answer, so far, is always no – that depending o