19. That book you were forced to read for class but actually ended up enjoying?

Most of them, honestly. I was always the person defending the assigned reading as being ‘not actually that bad, honestly’, and quietly liked a lot of what we read. There was a book I read at school about a young woman who went from England to Viriginia, and after a series of events, was the victim of a witch hunt and later ended up hiding in a native community, & I enjoyed it so much that I ended up looking up and buying the sequel. I could not tell you the name of it, only that I ended up reading ahead of what was prescribed.

What I also really liked, and also what I suppose actually made me be interested in feminism/women’s rights for the first time, were a bunch of poems written by Carol Ann Duffy that took the perspective of female figures that lacked a voice/were ignored (think the anthology was called ‘The World’s Wife’?), in year 12. Demeter is still my favourite Greek Goddess because of those poems.

27. What section do you immediately head for when you walk into a bookstore?

General fiction A-Z or philosophy/politics. I also like to look around the languages section & I also will sometimes have a look at what’s in the children’s section if I’m feeling nostalgic.

50. How are you at climbing trees?

Not great. The closest I came to breaking a bone was when I fell out of a tree when I was about 10 years old. I remember I couldn’t lift my arm part a certain point and my mother was like ‘oh it’s nothing’, because my brother had broken his arm that year and it was nowhere near as bad, even though I was in pain for 4 weeks.