June’s Book Club pick is I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel. It’s a sharp, unsettling, often funny and brilliant debut that’s garnered a lot of richly deserved attention. The unnamed narrator, let’s call her X, is obsessive, with a distinctive voice that’s at once intimate and confrontational. She is Pepysian in her honesty, has no […]
Interview by Kate de Meillon A large part of the inspiration for Lost in the Garden comes from my 1980s childhood growing up in deepest rural Lincolnshire – it’s such a strange environment, especially having now largely lived in less remote places in recent years. You almost feel cut off from the rest of the […]
By Kate de Meillon 1) You’ve written a great novel, could you briefly explain to a potential reader what it is about? It’s about a 16-year old boy, Sebastian, who falls in love on holiday in Italy, and about a retired CIA agent who recants his participation in Operation Gladio post-WW2. That’s when the CIA-backed […]
