‘I was scared I was going mad”: Meg Mason speaks to fellow authors about the parasocial relationships that begin on the page
As a lonely teenager, the novels of Nancy Mitford offered the Sorrow and Bliss author a lifeline – and an imaginary friend. She explores why reading can create a particularly intense bond with a favourite writerIn the summer before university, my mother gave me a copy of The Pursuit of Love. We’d moved countries at the beginning of my A-levels and those months in between had been defined by a level of loneliness I had never known in my life.…
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