It was quite an insummate read for that character. You felt like really understood her and knew her, and sometimes kind of felt taken aback by what she was saying. Sometimes i enjoyed it because it was so intense. Anything that i find really immersive, iam very attracted to, even if it's the negative emotion that it makes. Anddo, i'md quite distressing to try and be honest with myself about the sort of person i was. But am. It was just me and this horrible virsion of myself. So it was like kind of a big confrontation, in a way.
Megan Nolan’s debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was hailed as a masterpiece by the literary world when it was published in 2021. Searingly honest and darkly amusing, it tells the story of an obsessive relationship. Written in glimmering prose, it charts a young woman’s elation as she falls in love and the obsession, anxiety and self-doubt that ensue. Nolan is also an acclaimed journalist and essayist whose writing appears in The New Statesman, The Guardian and The New York Times. She's joined by fellow journalist and author of the dark satire, How To Kill Your Family, Bella Mackie, to discuss her work.
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