Yrsa Daley-Ward: “How could anyone keep themselves all the way out of a novel?”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on colour as a language, trusting strangeness and how memories revise and rewrite themselves
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Zuzanna Lachendro is junior commissioning editor at the New Statesman. She has a very eclectic taste. Don’t ask about her top 10 on Spotify. zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk
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