My earliest reading memory Anna Sewell's Black Beauty when I was about eight or nine, sitting in the back of my mother's parked Mini one hot summer's day, my legs burning on the red vinyl seat, and bawling because they were putting the bearing rein on Ginger...
But we could write. We were artists. Art may have been all we had, but what a thing to have...
Beloved by Toni Morrison is incredible. It dramatises literally the psychic violence and intergenerational trauma that can be wreaked upon a people...
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. I first read it at 16 and cannot overstate the impact the prose had on me. That beginning! That middle! That end! I have read it five or six times now...
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