When you're drunk all the time, as she is for a lot of the book, you know, obviously you're not making decisions that you would necessarily make when you're not drunk. Ye, she sol vewsnis not just cearing, but con of sex with other people for validation, you know. And so she goes along with it. But you can tell it's not something that is giving her either pleasure or even really the validation that she's there for. It's just something that happens.
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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