We were delighted to welcome Patrick back to Gladfest with his latest book, Take Nothing With You. A Sunday Times bestseller within a week of its launch at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Patrick’s 16th novel tells the story of fifty-something Eustace, a gay Londoner of leisure. In the same week that he falls hopelessly in love with a man he has yet to physically meet, he find out he has cancer of the thyroid. During radioactive iodine therapy – alone in a lead-lined suite with only disposable clothes for company – his memories come circling back…Patrick talks to Damian Barr.