Meg Mason: ‘It’s really warping, all these people who don’t know you, who feel like they do’
Meg Mason, the author of bestseller Sorrow and Bliss, returns with Sophie, Standing There, a meta novel about a lonely literary-festival worker’s parasocial relationship with a famous writer
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Meg Mason, the author of bestseller Sorrow and Bliss, returns with Sophie, Standing There, a meta novel about a lonely literary-festival worker’s parasocial relationship with a famous writer
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Meg Mason: ‘It’s really warping, all these people who don’t know you, who feel like they do’
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Author Meg Mason: ‘It’s really warping, all these people who don’t know you, who feel like they do’
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