Tastemaker

‘My biggest fear? Sharks and saying the wrong thing’ – Schitt's Creek writer Monica Heisey

Monica Heisey, the Canadian comedy writer and author, now lives in London and is best known for her work on hit comedy Schitt’s Creek

Monica Heisey: her new book Really Good, Actually is about a young woman getting divorced and ‘handling it even worse than I did in real life’. Picture: Rachel Sherlock

When Monica Heisey got divorced after a brief marriage she bought a leather miniskirt and moved to London. “I thought it was a very ‘divorced’ article of clothing to own. It was not the kind of thing I’d usually wear and it made me feel very wild,” she says. “It’s out of regular rotation these days, but I have an extreme soft spot for it, and for that period in my life where I was ...