New novel Fruit Fly plumbs the depths of creative desperation

Fruit Fly starts at a party – in Crouch End on a Friday night – starring a “wannabe Bloomsbury set” where people think “Virginia Woolf is just a total fucking mood.” The hosts are Mallory and Ronan, a married couple with an enviable facade: good-looking, well-off, living in a home they own and designed with obsessive detail. Mallory used to be a literary sensation after penning a hit book, Shallow Embers,hellip;

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