Following on from the release of her feminist book of essays, Women Don’t Owe You Pretty, author and illustrator Florence Given was hailed ‘the voice of a generation’.
It’s a weighty title, which the 23-year-old from Plymouth, doesn’t pay much attention to.
“I don’t want to be the voice of a generation, I just want to write books that make people think,” she tells Róisín Ingle on The Irish Times Women’s Podcast.
On the back of that success, Given has just released her second book, Girlcrush, a novel described as a ‘modern, sexy, feminist retelling of Jekyll and Hyde’.
It follows the journey of Eartha, an openly bisexual woman who, after uploading a drunken video of herself, becomes a viral sensation and is now learning to cope with her new found fame.
In this episode, Given speaks about her move from feminist writing into fiction, how she deals with her own success and what the future might have in store for her.
“I want to write books for the rest of my life and I want to become an even better writer, I can’t wait to see what I’ll be doing in ten years,” she says.
