Benjamin Myers: ‘I got a taste for the macabre early on’

The prizewinning Durham-born writer on his latest novel – a postwar story of a young man’s friendship with an older womanBenjamin Myers’s eighth novel, The Offing, is the tale of Robert, a young man who, in the aftermath of the second world war, sets out across Yorkshire to Robin Hood’s Bay, where he forges an unlikely friendship with an eccentric and artistic older woman, Dulcie. Myers’s novels have always been challenging, intelligent and linguistically adventurou