Yelik says her perspective on the book is so totally different now than it was when she started. She used alcohol and solf ham as a coping mechanism to get out of herself. The more distance you get from writing age, the sor your perspective changes. You're right about that, sort quite off when we get no quite moral in our stories,. Even even when we don't think we are.
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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