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The "boredom" of sobriety has driven Wellington man Geoff Cochrane to write a second novel. He talks to Vivienne Shakespear about the success of his first and the challenge of staying on the wagon.
NOVELIST Geoff Cochrane began to write "seriously" in 1990, at the age of 39 when, after years of alcoholism, he "got sober and realised I had this left-over life to fill".
Cochrane had written since adolesence - even the "bad years" of his 20s and 30s saw him produce several self-published books of poetry; more recently he has had poems published in the literary journal, Sport - but he had always had the idea that "you weren't grown up as a writer until you had written a novel".
The result of his first shot of adult sobriety was the novel Tin Nimbus, published to glowing reviews in 1995. Set in...