On Better Words: Kate Young
In search of queer adolesence and experience
Kate Young is a writer and cook. Her award-winning Little Library Cookbooks feature food inspired by beloved works of literature. After a sunny Australian childhood, spent indoors reading books, she moved to London, which suited her much better. She now lives in a converted mill in a Gloucestershire town. Today we're discussing her debut novel, a queer rom-com called Experienced.
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Things we talked about
Why Kate lives in the UK even though she grew up in Australia
Kate's amazing New Year's tradition
Queer adolescence and working out what you need in relationships
Kate's scientific study of rom-com (and what it reveals about writing them)
Writing cookbooks and Kate's journey into writing fiction
Other recommendations
Before we chat with our featured author, we always share some other recommendations. This week was a film/theatre review based on one of our favourite book clubs to date.
How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
A book we both missed when it was published in 2021. This is a witty and wickedly funny crime novel about a young woman working through a plan to kill off the members of her extended family. Grace is such an anti-hero we couldn't help but fall in love with her. We give plenty of spoilers in this chat but we give lots of warnings if you want to skip them.
- Caitlin & Michelle
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