Maybe the World Will End So We Won't Have To by Natasha Bell
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.
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'[Maybe the World Will End So We Won’t Have To is dazzlingly intelligent, searching out the core of truth within the mess of self and self-narration. It is fearlessly honest, emotionally acute and very funny. I loved it.' - Jessica Moor
'Quite an achievement. Some images will stay with me a long time. Thoroughly examines that border between privacy and exposure, between intimacy and betrayal, and captures the internal thoughts of writers so well. Always thinking of potential storylines, always thinking about plot, always trying to link images to action, to think of twists and reversals and killer lines. The pages turn themselves…' - Lara Haworth, author of Monumenta