![]() ![]() The ex has the power of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca – a woman you could never be. He had a drawing table in his front room. ![]() I couldn't stand being in rooms with pictures of his exes. I did not know London I stayed behind when he was at work. ![]() He had pictures of his ex-girlfriends everywhere. I was staying in a boyfriend's house in Dalston, London. Where did the idea for Was She Pretty? come from? In Was She Pretty?, now published for the first time in the UK, she is back at the drawing board with a subversive catalogue of ex-girlfriends. Her more recent account of her early career as a trainee Olympic swimmer, Swimming Studies, was celebrated everywhere – but was unconventional, too, with its photos of swimming costumes and watery sketches. Her first novel, Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, described a love affair in 331 lots. She likes to test the boundaries of what a book can be. Leanne Shapton grew up in Canada and is based in New York – she used to work for the New York Times's op-ed page. ![]()
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