Vogue magazine interviewed British singer-songwriter Tom Odell before he embarked on a two-month European tour, and one of the questions was What book are you currently reading?
“Rabbit, Run by John Updike. I read it once before when I was a lot younger; it’s about a very brilliant sports star who just sort of gets up and leaves his family. It’s very gritty, it’s somewhere between John Steinbeck and Charles Bukowski,” the 26 year old said. That, by the way, was Rabbit’s age in the first book.
Odell’s debut studio album, Long Way Down, was released in June 2013 and his second album, Wrong Crowd, was released in December 2016, along with the Christmas EP Spending All My Christmas with You.