Tanya Sweeney: When I was 10 years old, living in the west Dublin suburbs, reading Smash Hits felt being granted membership to a cool clubhouse

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of meeting a fellow author who, like me, was releasing her own debut novel. I, along with Alex Kadis, who has written the effervescent and moving novel Big Nobody , ended up together on the Book Off podcast, pitting our two favourite books against each other (mine was High Fidelity , and hers was Olga Dies Dreaming ).

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