Matt Rowland Hill: 'My mother says she will sue me if I ever write another book like it'

The author of Original Sins, an account of addiction and shame, on his book's impact on his evangelical parents, reading the Patrick Melrose series while waiting for drug dealers, and how looking middle class saved him from arrest Matt Rowland Hill, 38, is the author of Original Sins, about growing up as the son of a baptist minister before falling into a decade-long addiction to heroin while studying at Oxford. Out in paperback, it was longlisted for last year's Baillie Gifford prize for nonfic...