Daisy Johnson: ‘I wasn’t a fan of David Szalay, but Flesh is a masterpiece’
By Guardian Books · 3 days ago
The Booker-shortlisted author on a momentous teenage encounter with The Bone People, getting a buzz from Peter Høeg’s Miss Smilla, and trying to avoid The Lorax My earliest reading memory Memories from my childhood are…
The Booker-shortlisted author on a momentous teenage encounter with The Bone People, getting a buzz from Peter Høeg’s Miss Smilla, and trying to avoid The Lorax My earliest reading memory Memories from my childhood are opening up as I read to my own young children at the moment. Something in the pictures of Helen Cooper’s The Bear Under the Stairs or Lane Smith’s The Big Pets takes me back to being four years old and being read to. My favourite book growing up I love the Sabriel series by Garth Nix and first read it alongside my father and, later, my younger brother. It…