Sally Rooney’s excellent novel Normal People has shown us what friendship, romance, and growing-up really looks like in all it’s ugly raw reality. Once the brilliant TV series also finished, I was left with a Marianne & Connell-shaped hole in my life that I struggled to fill. Like the rowdy neighbours opposite us, I didn’t necessarily like them, but I enjoyed their presence in my life all the same, and was transfixed by their messy relationship. I struggled to find something that …
Author: Karen McKay
→A bibliophile with more books than sense, and bookseller for over 10 years. When I'm not reading with my tyrannical toddler I escape with some literary fiction. I am also currently enjoying the fresh wave of autobiographical essays and thought-provoking non-fiction.
The toddler is dragging me outside to play, the cat is threatening to attack if I don’t feed him for the twelfth time today, and the other half is signaling …
Despite being someone who has to be virtually at death’s door to even contemplate visiting a doctor, I’ve read a fair few medical biographies recently: Brainstorm, Admissions, No Tears Left… …
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”—Emilie Buchwald I love The Gruffalo as much as my little one, but once you can recite it from memory, it’s …
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