The book was always intended to be like, sort of almost a insistently one person's perspective. So i think it would just make it such a different book if i was to try a start keeping his perspective on things and see how i was never going to go too deeply into him. I didn't consider, now, weather, you know, his, his upbringing had affected him. I just sort of thought, you're a bastard. And i once ansented one or wether yo'd sow. so he did. You gave him a back stoy, but he didn't deserve much more.
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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