Julie Myerson

The best way to cope with rejection is to write about it

When Michèle Roberts’s latest novel is turned down, she rallies in the only way she knows how

Michèle Roberts. Credit: Alamy 
issue 23 May 2020
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  • Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving

    Michèle Roberts

    Sandstone Press, pp. 288, £18

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