“Like Harriet the Spy for grown-ups” – Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin

"As I get older, I have less time for tricksy. I want honesty, authenticity, sympathy for the human condition. A book like Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday, for me, falls into the first camp - it's a dog walking on its hind legs, and it impresses the right people, and you can't move for column inches and podcast interviews and all the rest of it; a book like Pretend I'm Dead by Jen Beagin falls into the second camp - so you probably won't have heard about it, or read reviews, or heard interviews. It's just a good, unshowy book. One of those."

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