Rebecca Watson

Oct 4, 2024 | ft.com | Rebecca Watson

This weekend, Sally Rooney will be crowned a #1 Sunday Times bestseller.

Sep 23, 2024 | theguardian.com | Rebecca Watson

This summer, when I was signing books after an event, I met a therapist who had bought my novel and who was planning to suggest it to her client, too. I Will Crash depicts a difficult sibling relationship and it was a reading experience she thought her client would find helpful. “We’re still behind in how we talk about siblings,” she said. “The taboo is strong.

Jul 20, 2024 | faber.co.uk | Rebecca Watson |Francis Spufford

Described by Richard Osman as ‘the best book of the century’, Golden Hill was first published in 2016 and won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year.

Jul 9, 2024 | theguardian.com | Rebecca Watson

The first feeling was embarrassment. What had happened was yet to catch up with me. All I knew was that I was looking into an open carriage, my body wedged into the gap between the tube and the platform, while strangers were staring from their seats in shock. It was 2015. I was 20 and on my way back from the airport, having been on holiday in Barcelona with some friends. My final year of university would begin in a few weeks.

Jul 5, 2024 | ft.com | Rebecca Watson

Two weeks before Euro 2024 began, it came to me like a vision: it was time for a work sweepstake.