![]() This was more than just literary snobbery, it was an attempt to keep feminism out of politics.Īt 56, I get courage from young women. When you shame people for what they read, you take away their confidence in other areas as well. But slapping a demeaning label on those books, “chick-lit”, sticking a pink glittery shoe and bottle of prosecco on the cover, immediately divested them of power. I wanted to write books about women who struggled. And this has been very good for me – I have no right to judge what anyone reads or watches on telly. ![]() I know nothing’s going to jump out and scare me. ![]() When my dad died a year ago, I mainlined Mills & Boon. I stop, and reduce life to simplicity as much as possible. When it comes now, I tell myself I’ve been through much worse. The fear feels like something catastrophic has happened, even when it hasn’t. And I did.ĭepression feels like extreme disconnection, like I don’t love anyone and nobody loves me. ![]() Then, one afternoon in the September of ‘93, I read a short story and thought, I could write something like that. Everyone around me was getting married and having babies and buying carpets and then buying curtains that match the carpet – and I was still drinking. But it was like standing on an island that was getting smaller and smaller. ![]() My great friend alcohol was the thing that enabled me to function and pass myself off as normal. I only studied law because I got the grades – I never had any sense of a future. ![]()
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