But the Girl

I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me.

Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind

Girl was born on the very day her parents and grandmoth...