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Daisy Johnson

Daisy Johnson: ‘I wasn’t a fan of David Szalay, but Flesh is a masterpiece’

Daisy Johnson, whose debut novel, Everything Under, was shortlisted for the 2018 Booker prize.
Daisy Johnson, whose debut novel, Everything Under, was shortlisted for the 2018 Booker prize. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

My earliest reading memory
Memories from my childhood are opening up as I read to my own young children at the moment. Something in the pictures of Helen Cooper’s The Bear Under the Stairs or Lane Smith’s The Big Pets takes me back to being four years old and being read to.

My favourite book growing up
I love the Sabriel series by Garth Nix and first read it alongside my father and, later, my younger brother. It was truly a shared joy to be immersed in that world, for a book to give us a new connection to one another.

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