IN AN AGE OF COMPARISON CULTURE AND GLOSSY SOCIAL-MEDIA LIVES, IT’S HARD NOT TO QUESTION YOUR OWN PROGRESS. BUT THERE’S NO RIGHT PATH TO LIFE AS THESE WOMEN, WHO ARE TURNING CONVENTION ON ITS HEAD AND SHARING WISDOM AS THEY GO, DEMONSTRATE…

The contemporary fiction writer talks to Zoe West

IT’S A FUNNY OLD WORLD

Our books editor Zoe West’s favourite picks for the month

Q In one sentence, describe your new book to us. A“A Legacy Of Secrets” is a family saga spanning the 1950s to the 1990s, and we follow Flick, a heiress with a difficult mother, as she seeks to find a

Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers