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Emma Forrest interview: ‘I’m a skin too thin, which is why I'm a good writer’

Emma Forrest made her name in the 1990s as one of the voices of Generation X, but a raw and confessional 2012 memoir was what really got her noticed. Now its belated sequel explores what happened when her ‘dream life’ fell apart

Emma Forrest: ‘Writing helps me figure things through and it makes me feel safer. It’s worth the vulnerability.’ Picture: Agnes Wonke Toth