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Below isCatastropheandMotherlandactressSharon Horgans list.
The first novel that messed me up.
Way before I saw the movie, the story leapt off the page.
I got into true crime thing way too young, way too early.
A book I read at least once a year.
It just completely transports me from wherever I am to Paris and Pamplona.
And his writing has such hidden depths every time I read it I find something new.
It takes a lost soul to convey so much.
It was just such a surprise to find it accessible.
Theres a poem of Heaneys that describes a couple peeling potatoes together while everyones at Mass.
Its such an intimate thing.
How Heaney can dissolve you into tears without being sentimental is an extraordinary thing.
So, I rereadPostcards from the Edge, and its such a joy.
Its written in letter form and includes a poem she wrote to her grandmother.
Its also liberating to write about something that awful in such bare, stark terms.
Theres a very deep female friendship at the heart of it.
As soon as I read it, I got in touch with Alderton.
Francis Poletti writes books for children, but her stories are for everyone.
Carolyn Cassady was the wife of Neal Cassady, who is the hero in KerouacsOn the Road.
He regularly betrayed her, but you love who you love.
She had a love affair with Kerouac as well weirdly because Neal Cassady suggested it.
But she wrote with so much intuition and insight, and a lot of beauty as well.
