https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/24/emma-donoghue-woosters-sweetly-foolish-flippancy-is-just-the-tonic-for-covid-19-times

The bestselling author on the influence of Jeanette Winterson and Emily Dickinson, and giving up on Elena Ferrante

The book I am currently reading
James Meek’s To Calais, In Ordinary Time is an absolute dazzler of a story about folk highborn and low about to encounter the Black Death: linguistically daring and full of heart.

The book that changed my life
Emily Dickinson’s Collected Poems. My mother used to quote Dickinson, and when I got around to reading her poems they blew my mind. They seemed to give me permission to be odd, to follow my curiosity wherever it led, and also to be queer.