Paperback Writer "Dear Sir or Madam will you read my book, it took me years to write will you take a look..."




Following a young unpublished Reading writer's battle to get her debut novel noticed, while trying to juggle life and her second novel.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books involves constantly

inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous

feelings whatever.

1946, ‘Confessions of A Book Reviewer’

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

1946, ‘In Front of Your Nose’

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of

their motives lies a mystery.

1946, ‘Why I Write’