Soso: "You have to be prepared to go straight into the middle of something that you don't necessarily naturally love or even support exactly, or are in control of" She says it's not fair for other women with careers who need some one with a little bit of a voice and power to defend them. But also the way the culture works, 'it's like you've got to go out there looking like a damned celebrity just to defend yourself', she adds. Soso is published by Simon & Schuster at £16.99.
Heather Havrilesky writes the Ask Polly and Ask Molly newsletters. Her latest book is Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage.
“It’s not a good story when you're bullshitting people. I didn't want this book to feel like bullshit…. I wanted to show enough that you could feel reassured that it's normal to feel conflicted about your life and the people in it. It's normal to feel anxious about how much people love you. And it's normal to feel avoidant about how much people love you. It's normal to feel like a failure in the face of trying to stay with someone over the course of your entire life.”
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