My favourite author
I’ve read everything by George Eliot and would pick Middlemarch as her finest. I love that she manages to be a philosopher as well as a novelist.
The book I’m reading
Andrew McMillan’s Pity. I love to see what poets do with the novel form: some crack it and others don’t. McMillan proves himself a gifted storyteller, delving into the lives of three generations of a South Yorkshire mining family.
Toni Morrison is one of Kay’s favourite authors
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The book I wish I’d written
Just about anything by Toni Morrison, particularly Song of Solomon. I remember coming across her work in Sisterwrite in 1981, when I was a hospital porter during the summer months. When she died [in 2019], I felt like I had lost a friend, but
