i wondered what it feels like to have a bunch of women come to you and say, oh, you wrote about my life. How does that feel? Yes, i did. I mean, it's a weird feeling to, like, for people to tell me anything private about themselves. And always feels like a real honour, because i'm very nosy. It is quite a kind of radically honest book in many ways. You didn't think, i've nailed this. Women around the globe agoing, i kind of come up to me and say, all godness, no, no, like, the opposite.
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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