Good luck to everyone taking exams right now. Back in the day, I had to study the War Poets, Macbeth, and Tess of the D’Urbervilles: surely a deliberate conspiracy to crush our youthful joy. But – what if some of the gloomiest writers were secretly leading a double life?Â
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