Juno Dawson

My guest this week is Juno Dawson, the bestselling novelist, screenwriter, and columnist. Juno has won acclaim for her young adult novels, which include her debut, Hollow Pike and last year’s hit Clean about a young woman struggling with addiction. Her most recent book, Meat Market, tells the story of a young woman who goes into the modelling industry to discover an unexpectedly dark side of it. I loved hearing how she was inspired to begin writing after coming across the Twilight books while working as a teacher, how being bullied at school made her more determined to succeed - and why daytime trips to the cinema fuel her creativity. Buy Meat Market here: https://tinyurl.com/y5ff9au5 Twitter: @aliceazania @junodawson Instagram: @aliceazania @junodawson Edited by Chelsey Moore

Om Podcasten

The Sunday Salon is a podcast celebrating brilliant books and the women who write them, hosted by journalist Alice-Azania Jarvis. Each week she chats to an inspiring female author about her work, her career, how she writes, what she reads and everything in between. This is not some academic textual analysis – it’s about finding the stories behind the stories. Tune in each Sunday to hear from guests including Isabel Allende, Jessie Burton, Holly Bourne, Diana Evans, Elizabeth Day, Nimco Ali and Sophie Kinsella. Edited by Chelsey Moore.