“It wasn't the first time I'd ever had a breakup, but it was different,” Shon Faye tells me.
We are sat overlooking the brutalist terrace of the Barbican. I make a tentative joke about the location being potentially awkward: it was here that she first met the ex-boyfriend we are discussing, whom she dated for 18 months, broke up with, and mourned for a year: all of which partially prompted the writing of her latest book, Love In Exile.
