DISCLAIMER/CONTENT WARNING: This episode of Storyshaped includes some discussion of adult themes and topics, including eating disorders, and may be best avoided by very young listeners and/or those for whom these topics may be triggering or upsetting. If this is you - catch you next week!
This week's Storyshaped delves into the bookish life of acclaimed and bestselling author Louise O'Neill, who has written for young adults and older adults over the course of her decade-long career as a novelist and journalist. Join us as we discuss the books that shaped Louise into the thinker, cultural critic, and creator that she is today, and the books that made her realise: I can be a writer, too.
Find Louise online:
Via her agents, Mushens Entertainment
Books mentioned in this week's episode include Louise's own:
Only Ever Yours
Asking For It
The Surface Breaks
Almost Love
After The Silence
Idol
And the books which Storyshaped her include:
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The books of Enid Blyton
The books of Roald Dahl
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Only a Paper Moon and Catch the Magpie by Tina (Cristina) Pisco
The Babysitters' Club by Ann M. Martin
Amongst Women by John McGahern
Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Sweet Valley High created by Francine Pascal
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Pants on Fire by Maggie Alderson
Sushi For Beginners by Marian Keyes
The novels of Louise Bagshawe
The Stormkeeper's Island trilogy by Catherine Doyle
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
The Double Love podcast - not Double Trouble, as we say, erroneously, in the episode - is available here
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