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Wed Nov 8

I've had enough of Sad Bad Girl novels and sensationalised trauma – but I'm hungry for complex stories about women

Written by: Liz Evans, Writer, author, journalist, Associate Lecturer in English & Writing, University of Tasmania

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Stories about flawed young women have been favoured by the publishing industry for some time now. Bad Girl novels proliferated in the wake of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, while Sad Girl novels have evolved from the comic haplessness of Bridget Jones in the 1990s, to more sobering ground with Sally Rooney’s introspec...

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