Umbrella – An introduction and ‘The Rules’

For US readers of Umbrella, here’s Will on how he researched his latest novel, which is a good introduction:

“Whenever I reach the end of a novel – and I mean the very end, when the second set of proofs have been corrected, and the button at the printers, for good or ill, has been pushed – I find myself plagued by a very particular and almost hallucinatory condition that I’ve dubbed – with exactitude if not felicity – ‘everythingitis’. The distinguishing feature of everythingitis – which it sh...