Getting Storyshaped With Louise O'Neill

DISCLAIMER/CONTENT WARNING: This episode of Storyshaped includes some discussion of adult themes and topics, including eating disorders, and may be best avoided by very young listeners and/or those for whom these topics may be triggering or upsetting. If this is you - catch you next week!

This week's Storyshaped delves into the bookish life of acclaimed and bestselling author Louise O'Neill, who has written for young adults and older adults over the course of her decade-long career as a novelist and journalist. Join us as we discuss the books that shaped Louise into the thinker, cultural critic, and creator that she is today, and the books that made her realise: I can be a writer, too.

Find Louise online:

Via her agents, Mushens Entertainment

Books mentioned in this week's episode include Louise's own:

Only Ever Yours

Asking For It

The Surface Breaks

Almost Love

After The Silence

Idol

And the books which Storyshaped her include:

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The books of Enid Blyton

The books of Roald Dahl

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Only a Paper Moon and Catch the Magpie by Tina (Cristina) Pisco

The Babysitters' Club by Ann M. Martin

Amongst Women by John McGahern

Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Sweet Valley High created by Francine Pascal

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Pants on Fire by Maggie Alderson

Sushi For Beginners by Marian Keyes

The novels of Louise Bagshawe

The Stormkeeper's Island trilogy by Catherine Doyle

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

The Double Love podcast - not Double Trouble, as we say, erroneously, in the episode - is available here

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