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High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. That was the book that single-handedly changed the face of commercial fiction. It was honest, funny, and completely relatable, and it paved the way for Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding, and in fact, an entire genre known back then as Chick Lit.
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The novel has been compared to Daisy Jones & The Six and High Fidelity, but Brickley’s voice is entirely her own. Cameron Crowe, director of Almost Famous, praised it as living alongside the unforgettable music it describes. It’s a national bestseller that’s been embraced by readers who recognize themselves in Percy…
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There isn’t much to my ‘writing process’, apart from, you know, writing it. I suppose the thing that’s possibly unusual is the length of time I spend walking round and round an idea before I get going. The book I’ve just started, I’ve been thinking about for a couple of years. I’ve been doing lots of screenplay work…
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