For Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, the author spent four years documenting the lives of residents of a Mumbai slum and the result is a masterpiece of reportage that has rightly won every major prize going. It’s an update of one of my favourite books, Arnold Bennett’s The Old Wives Tale, set amongst the Sikh community in Wolverhampton, and has important things to say about race in Britain as well as being beautifully written and very funny. Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera isn’t published until the autumn, but I am very excited about it and not just because the author is a friend. Which books have you recently read and enjoyed? But I would love to be able to draw and hugely admire great graphic novelists. Gosh – so many! One off the top of my head: “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!” ( William Wordsworth: “The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement”).Īgain, there are so many I’m not sure I can give one answer. Share with us your favourite line/s of dialogue, poetry or prose. Which literary character do you wish you’d created? I wouldn’t inflict my early drafts on anyone, but once it’s in some sort of shape my mum is my first reader. Who do you share your work in progress with? I tried to give the story a strong pull, so people would get to the end without being tempted by YouTube. This book I wrote for people who, like me, are readers but find the internet a constant distraction. How would you pitch your latest book in up to 25 words?Ī sheltered young woman agrees to impersonate a stranger online, to allow the stranger to disappear without her loved ones knowing she has gone. Otherwise, I punctuate my day by drinking expensive coffee and window shopping at .uk. When it’s warm like today, I reward myself for a good paragraph by jumping into the Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath.
My excuse is maternity leave, but now my son is one I am getting back on it.īoth, but mostly keyboard. I’ve been writing very part-time for the past year, to the point where you could argue I haven’t actually been writing at all. The sandwiches are better and there aren’t so many distracting students. If I’m really meaning business then the British Library, but I’m much happier in this café. Where and when do you do most of your writing? In a café called Euphorium near Hampstead Heath in north London. I tried to give the story a strong pull so people would get to the end without being tempted by YouTube.” I wrote this book for people who find the internet a constant distraction. Bookanista finds out what makes her tick. Lottie Moggach’s chilling and finely crafted debut novel Kiss Me First tells the story of a socially awkward young woman drawn into an online community run by a charismatic web guru who entices her to impersonate a suicidal stranger.
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