The Wheeler Centre Gala 2019: Crush: Claire Hooper

'Wade's mother is not technically a robot, but she does have cold, dead eyes.'

Claire Hooper explores the impact Astro Boy has had on her relationships.

For our 2019 Gala Night of Storytelling, we invited some of our favourite writers and thinkers to dish about their fictional crush. It may have been a character of page, stage, screen or stereo – or some life-changing, out-of-reach hero of the real world.