Susanna Crossman

Aug 20, 2024 | vogue.co.uk | Susanna Crossman

Trembling, I painted my lips scarlet, stroke after stroke, in Miss Selfridge Doris Karloff red. My bedroom mirror reflected my alabaster 14-year-old face, whitened with talcum powder. Around the mirror’s rim were ripped pictures I’d stuck of Leigh Bowery, his moon face covered in a silver mosaic. Downstairs, the gong rang. Dinnertime. In the commune, the gong announced every meal. It was 1984.

Aug 17, 2024 | l8r.it | Julianne Pachico |Carsten Henn |Marianne Cronin |Susanna Crossman

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Aug 17, 2024 | theguardian.com | Savannah Ayoade-Greaves |Susanna Crossman |Marina Hyde |Moya Sarner |Laura Shavin |Evelyn Miller

Susanna Crossman describes her childhood in a utopian commune where children ran wild – and the trouble that came with that freedom; Marina Hyde assesses Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s glitch-ridden chat; and Moya Sarner reveals the life-changing power of selfishness, with the help of a simple phrase. How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know

Aug 10, 2024 | theguardian.com | Susanna Crossman

It is July and we have packed up our house. We are what is called a Single Parent Family. It is 1978, and being a Single Parent Family is not good; we are the only children like this in our classes at school. We’re leaving behind our climbing frame and our garden, and our guinea pigs, Victoria and Albert, and we’re going to live in a mansion. We slide on the sweaty back seat of the car for hours.

May 1, 2024 | penguin.co.uk | Susanna Crossman

A Guardian book to look out for for 2024'A bold and intimate grappling with the hidden history at the heart of a childhood that was set up as a collectivist social experiment' EWAN MORRISON, author of How to Survive Everything'Strikingly good' NOREEN MASUD, author of A Flat PlaceIn the turbulent late seventies, six-year-old Susanna Crossman moved with her mother and siblings from a suburban terrace to a crumbling mansion deep in the English countryside.