Real comes and goes and isn't very interesting, a therapist advises in July's 2015 debut novel, The First Bad Man.
In the film, it's fantasy that enables genuine connection; in the novel, the protagonist has to move beyond fantasy to discover that life's core lies elsewhere - in the touch of a lover or a baby.
Her casually magisterial 2020 film Kajllionaire looked outwards to society's edges, raising the stakes and developing something like an ethics of the misfit.
An overcommitment to fantasy in parallel with a total shaving off of dreams and tenderness: this became the stuff of survival, and life and death are at stake too in July's acerbically clever, radically compassionate new novel, All Fours.
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