We know lots of women feel incredibly sort of akin to your female protagonist. And i wondered whether you had to decisively kind of treat her with kindness and with gentleness because, you know, you remember what it was like being that age. Or whether it was because you realized that actually she could quite easily tip in to you a kind of damaged, difficult trope of a woman, and you you successfully avoided that. I didn't like her when i started writing the book, and i started from a place of trying to expose her to show that even when bad things happen to you as a woman, or to me as a woman,. i mean, it's not an excuse for Like
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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