The Booker-nominated writer on how growing up between England and Zimbabwe inspired her first novel – and why she started over after reading Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch
Nervous Conditions is a novel about yearning and wanting, about black girls – in this case Zimbabwean girls – desiring better for themselves and their loved ones. I wrote it as a fugitive. A fugitive from my first memories and of what my life had become.
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