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Other Women
Francine Prose
‘Feminism is as basic to my sense of self as the fact that I have brown eyes.’
Bad Women, Good Feminists?
Damian Barr
‘I was told I was not a feminist and never could be, because I was a man.’
To the Lighthouse
Helen Dunmore
‘There are novels which have an almost uncanny power to renew themselves in the reader’s imagination.’
Selling Your First Soul
Kseniya Melnik
‘The Russia of my memories was largely imaginary – a cauldron of nostalgia-tinted material, which I calibrated with scrupulous research.’
Like We Are
Binnie Kirshenbaum
‘My father can speak just fine. Nonetheless, he does not speak to me; nor I to him.’
Boar
Leo Mellor
‘A rustle in the bracken; then, almost immediately, a snout and some wiry black hair.’