She talks a lot about how she's going to make him her. Ye, she sort of sees men as has something to conquer. And it's almost like she will validate herself by being with keron. I think we can kind of forget how strong an obsession that is when we're young. Lk, probably largely out of that really hard corner obsession with be the way people look at you.
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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