She claims Assembly isn’t autobiographical – she was more likely to pinch details from her loved ones’ lives (“one of my friends recognised her baby’s high chair”). “I think there’s kind of a generic, big-corp experience that you can kind of evoke on the page.” “It’s kind of hard to describe because it was the only place I really worked,” she says of life at a firm she’d rather not name, adding that she deliberately kept the details sparse in Assembly so more people could relate to it. She ended up in a city job with all its typical issues. Her parents met at college in America (“we’re all big readers and talkers”), and her father encouraged her to take up the subject at university, where she was particularly delighted by pure mathematics, thought to be one of the hardest fields of human knowledge, and which Brown, with typical understatement, describes as “not having much of a real-world application”.īrown and her friends graduated in the “post-2008 world – you didn’t feel like you could be all that fussy”.
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She joins a select group of authors – David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon among them – to have studied mathematics. Brown grew up in London and was a big reader as a child, spending summers at her grandparents’ and dawdling over their huge bookshelf.
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