The novelist on being introduced to Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye by an old frenemy, learning how to eat a mango from Nikesh Shukla – and the feminist comic that changed her mind
The book I am currently reading
Paradise Block by Alice Ash – a collection of searingly brilliant short stories all set in the same tower block. She is a witch with words.
The book that changed my life
The Republic of Motherhood by Liz Berry. My friend Stef put me on to this after we had a conversation about postnatal depression and I realised I probably had it. It’s a collection of raw and beautiful poems about how hard motherhood can be. I reread it often.
