Eventually Linda does find her way out from the bosom of her deeply eccentric extended family, and she escapes to London. Linda’s strict, former rock star father terrifies any potential suitors away, while her bohemian mother, wafting around in silver jewellery, answers Linda’s urgent questions about love with upsettingly vivid allusions to animal husbandry.

Hers is a higgledy-piggledy life that is always buoyed by good cheer, and everyone swept up in her wake is left changed by the encounter, no matter how small or big it is. Of course, she is beautiful, with an innate sense of style; every girl wants to be her, every guy wants to be with her.Their unique, somewhat cloistered, childhood let their imaginations run rife; growing up is an adventure. Uma mensagem por e-mail será enviada antes do término do período gratuito, que pode ser cancelado a qualquer momento. But Darling is a treat, with whip-smart dialogue, larger-than- life characters, witty observations and a heart-breaking twist .

Knight also takes a gleeful magnifying glass to the hypocrisies of modern life, from rigorous dieter Blanche going to restaurants solely for social media content, to Christian making Linda do all the housework, because paying a cleaner is “immoral”.

Her first venture into literature was 2000’s My Life on a Plate, charting a woman’s complicated family life which was more or less a fictionalised account of her own story. This blog hosts a selection of articles written from 2013 to the present, mostly focusing on my book reviews, which are uploaded frequently. She wears her heart on her sleeve and doesn’t apologise for it, and is funny and astute in her observations. Sharp, topical, and powerful, Hyper is a story about what remains of our humanity in a world increasingly dominated by the flows of capital.