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 /  05 September 2024  

#  My Life In Books: Olivia Petter  


Olivia Petter is a journalist, author and broadcaster whose debut novel Gold Rush was published this summer. She has written for the Sunday Times and British Vogue as well as hosting the Independent’s chart-topping Millennial Love podcast since 2017, before relaunching the podcast as Love Lives last year. Here, we sat down with her to find out more about her reading habits, favourite authors and top book recommendations…  


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#### What are you reading right now? 



 

[*All Fours*](https://amzn.to/3Mx0iMy), the latest book by Miranda July. It’s very funny and clever.

 

#### What book from childhood will always stay with you? 



 

[*Wuthering Height*](https://amzn.to/4dNeygc)*s* by Emily Brontë. I blame a lot of my poor romantic choices on this book.

 

#### Which books made you want to write? 



 

[*The Bell Jar*](https://amzn.to/3ARPiH1), [*The Great Gatsby*](https://amzn.to/4cTHHF0) and [*The Handmaid’s Tale*](https://amzn.to/47gIGOr). And in terms of more recent fiction, [*Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine*](https://amzn.to/3yTIp7B) by Gail Honeyman. I think about that book, and specifically its spikey, idiosyncratic protagonist, often. It’s a masterpiece.

 

#### When and where do you read? 



 

Usually in my bedroom on a pink velvet chair at the end of my bed. I love reading in the mornings on weekends. I try to read on the tube but find it too distracting and just end up listening to music instead.

 

#### Where do you buy books? 



 

Anywhere and everywhere, but my favourite bookshops in London are [BookBar](https://www.bookbaruk.com/) in Finsbury Park, Libreria off Brick Lane, and [Pages of Hackney](https://www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/?srsltid=AfmBOooYFixfhHT5v6INpgN2NFNYTkV91UaP-ujJICtThDnqH3q5y2lm).

 

#### Do you belong to a book club? 



 

I’m actually in two, which means my reading list is often pretty long. One is with some friends from school and the other is with friends I’ve made through work. They’re a lot of fun. Being in a book club is a great excuse to chat and drink wine with lovely, clever, funny women.

 

#### How do you choose what to read? 



 

I take recommendations pretty seriously and get a lot from Instagram, usually from authors whose work I’m already familiar with. I’ll basically read anything Pandora Sykes recommends – I really enjoyed [*Green Dot*](https://amzn.to/3TaEdan) by Madeleine Gray on her recommendation – and likewise for Coco Mellors. Over lunch, she told me to read Franzen, who has since become one of my favourite writers. She also pointed me towards [*Big Swiss*](https://amzn.to/3XrI1GO) by Jen Beagin, which I devoured on holiday in Mexico last year.

 

 I love READING IN THE MORNINGS ON WEEKENDS. I try to read on the tube but find it too distracting and end up just listening to music.  
 

 



 

 

#### Do you have a favourite author? 



 

I think Jonathan Franzen is one of the best writers around; anyone who wants to learn how to write fiction should read his work. But I also love Dolly Alderton, Raven Leilani, Sally Rooney and Coco Mellors – [*Cleopatra &amp; Frankenstein*](https://amzn.to/3XuyvT2) had a lasting impact on me.

 

#### What have been some of your favourite reads of 2024 so far? 



 

I enjoyed [*Hello Beautiful*](https://amzn.to/4cQ3SvR) by Ann Napolitano and *Freedom* by Jonathan Franzen.

 

#### What one novel will always stay with you? 



 

[*My Dark Vanessa*](https://amzn.to/4ebP7ot) by Kate Elizabeth Russell. I don’t think I’ve ever read a depiction of trauma and coercion quite like it before. Russell perfectly captures the nuances around victimhood and trying to reclaim your autonomy within a structure that has already robbed you of it. On a lighter note, there’s Nora Ephron’s [*Heartburn*](https://amzn.to/3yTJz2X), which I love for so many reasons, mostly because it’s a perfect example of fictionalising your own life with integrity, humour and artfulness. It’s something that’s often used to denigrate female novelists as if to suggest we have no imagination beyond our own experiences. Ephron shows us how valuable this kind of writing can be as an art form – and that it should be taken seriously.

 

#### Favourite non-fiction book? 



 

I really rate [*All About Love: New Visions*](https://amzn.to/3zd29D1) by bell hooks. Reading that was hugely helpful research for my first book, [*Millennial Love*](https://amzn.to/3TfUUBn), and for my own life too. I remind myself that love is a verb very often. A more recent non-fiction book I adored was [*The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice*](https://amzn.to/3Z8Zrci) by Elizabeth Flock. She examines three real-life stories of women across the world fighting back in the face of violence. The first focuses on a woman in Alabama called Brittany Smith, who was jailed after killing the man who raped her. Flock’s reporting is exceptional and highlights just how much misogyny fuels miscarriages of justice when it comes to violence against women.

 

#### Which book would you give as a gift? 



 

Probably [*Ariel*](https://amzn.to/3z6wWBv) by Sylvia Plath. People don’t read enough poetry these days and I think that’s a real loss.

 

#### What was the last book that made you cry? 



 

*Cleopatra &amp; Frankenstein* by Coco Mellors.

 

#### Any recommendations for laugh-out-loud books? 



 

[*Really Good, Actually*](https://amzn.to/3X9W5Dw) by Monica Heisey. It had me laughing out loud on holiday.

 

 BOOK CLUBS ARE A LOT OF FUN. It’s a great excuse to chat and drink wine with lovely, clever, funny women  
 

 



 

 

#### What’s your favourite film or TV adaptation of a book? 



 

Probably Stanley Kubrick’s [*Lolita*](https://amzn.to/3TfmRsG). What a book. What a film. I have a framed poster of it on my wall at home.

 

#### Are there any books that have helped you through difficult times? 



 

[*Grief Is A Thing With Feathers*](https://amzn.to/478tNhb) by Max Porter.

 

#### Favourite literary character? 



 

Regrettably it’s probably Heathcliff… I’m sure my therapist would have a lot to say about that.

 

#### What one book should everybody read in their lifetime? 



 

[*1984*](https://amzn.to/4g7Mkyh) by George Orwell. I don’t think any novel is quite as timeless. Even today, more than seven decades since it was published, it serves as a poignant social and cultural commentary on power, capitalism, and relationships. I think that’s pretty spectacular.

 

#### Do you have a favourite book of all time? 



 

[*The Bell Jar*](https://amzn.to/3ARPiH1). Hands down.

 

#### Tell us about your own debut novel… 



 

[*Gold Rush*](https://amzn.to/3MwAS1s) is a book that been brewing for years; the entire premise was born out of a phrase in *The Bell Jar*: “Fashion blurbs, silver and full of nothing, sent up their fishy bubbles in my brain. They surfaced with a hollow pop.” It made me think about the entertainment industry and specifically the glossy veneer that so much of it exists behind. I wanted to explore how celebrities have exploited that in the age of #MeToo.

 

#### What was it like writing fiction for the first time? 



 

So much fun. It’s what I’ve always wanted to do and I’m still pinching myself that I’ve been given the opportunity to do it. But it’s an entirely different muscle to non-fiction. I’m much more high maintenance with my writing process; I need to be able to switch off from the noise of the real world and that’s easier said than done with my job. That usually requires taking myself to the British Library, putting my phone away in a locker, and hoping the wi-fi is broken (it often is). I am working on another novel at the moment. It’s very early days but it’s going to be about a relationship and there will be multiple points of view… That’s all I can really say at this stage. But it feels amazing to be writing fiction again.

 

*Gold Rush by Olivia Petter is available to* [*buy here*](https://amzn.to/4gbn8qD)*.*

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## Inspired?

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[#### All Fours](https://amzn.to/3Mx0iMy)

##### Miranda July, 



£15.99

 

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[#### Lolita](https://amzn.to/3TfmRsG)

##### Vladimir Nabokov, 



£12.03

 

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[#### Gold Rush](https://amzn.to/3MwAS1s)

##### Olivia Petter, 



£9.99

 

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[#### Ariel](https://amzn.to/3z6wWBv)

##### Sylvia Plath, 



£12.19

 

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[#### Cleopatra &amp; Frankenstein](https://amzn.to/3XuyvT2)

##### Coco Mellors, 



£12.85

 

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[#### Grief Is The Thing With Feathers](https://amzn.to/478tNhb)

##### Max Porter, 



£11.90

 

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[#### Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine](https://amzn.to/3yTIp7B)

##### Gail Honeyman, 



£12.85

 

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##### Jonathan Franzen, 



£13.68

 

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[#### Hello Beautiful](https://amzn.to/4cQ3SvR)

##### Ann Napolitano, 



£8.49

 

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[#### My Dark Vanessa](https://amzn.to/4ebP7ot)

##### Kate Elizabeth Russell, 



£12.85

 

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##### Nora Ephron, 



£11.16

 

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##### Jonathan Franzen, 



£13.31

 

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##### Monica Heisey, 



£5.50

 

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##### Sally Rooney, 



£11.74

 

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##### Sylvia Plath, 



£10.54

 

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##### Elizabeth Flock, 



£10.99

 

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