Maybe the World Will End So We Won’t Have to
Author Harry is divorced, depressed, out of contract and unsure what she wants to do with the rest of her life. She invents a character Natalie – a braver, bolder version of herself – whom she begins channelling in small ways in her own life.
A metafictional tour de force, Maybe the World Will End So We Won’t Have To is a finely crafted literary autofiction about identity, sexuality and the work that goes into writing a novel. Brilliantly queer and feminist, and by turns funny and dark, it leaves us questioning the practice and ethics of being a writer.
‘Sterling work. An astutely written, complex debut.’
Guardian (in praise of This Nowhere Place)
Natasha Bell
Natasha Bell is an author and researcher. Her novels This Nowhere Place (2021) and His Perfect Wife (2018) are published by Penguin. She lived and studied in York and Chicago in her twenties, then moved to London for her thirties, where she completed an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths. She teaches novel-writing for Faber Academy, City Lit and Jericho Writers, and lives in Southwark with her wife and son.
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