Sarah Moss

It's about a young female American novelist and it's kind of an artistic coming of age story.

And I thought I'd read quite a lot of those and I didn't need to read any more.

But it's so very well written and clever and funny.

It reminded me a bit of Jenny Offill, who's somebody else whose work I admire very much.

And there's this great name, I'll be misquoting, but she says, um, one of the difficulties for elite white men is that they've grown up being told that they're born for greatness.

And therefore when they reach maturity and greatness has not come upon them, they live with disappointment and bitterness that the rest of us don't share because we were never taught to expect greatness of ourselves anyway.

Um, and I think that's brilliant.

And I've quoted it a couple of times to my teenage sons when they're going around being disappointed because greatness is not upon them.

Um,

Yeah, it's full of really nice observations like that, but it's generally very well written, well structured.

Next, I have Ellie Williams' new book, By the Bed, and I've just forgotten the title, so I'm going over all three steps from my working at home desk to my bed.

It's called The Liar's Dictionary, and I really loved her collection of short stories afterwards, so I'm very much looking forward to this one.

And I've got Daisy Johnson's Sisters in the Pile as well, Unstarted.