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a conversation with the celebrated British debut novelist Sheena Patel

"It was very important to me to have a narrator who wasn't a victim. Every monstrous thing that is done to her she does to someone else."
Leah McLaren
Apr 20, 2023
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Debut novelist Sheena Patel’s I’m a Fan is a pithy, messy, irresistible back-alley-hate-fuck of a book. Obviously I loved it. Over 210 pages, it tells the story of an unnamed young London woman who becomes romantically obsessed with a feckless, married YBA-styled London art star. Dude’s famous but the nature of his remunerative creative output is never …

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