Lonely Mouth: Jacqueline Maley in-conversation with Julia Baird

From the bestselling author of The Truth About Her comes Lonely Mouth, a delicious, clever, tender and vivid novel about the conflicted way women think about their bodies, their appetites, and themselves in the world.

'Lonely mouth... It's a Japanese expression. You feel like you want to eat something but you don't know what it is. You're looking for just the right thing. But maybe there is no right thing. Maybe you don't need anything at all. You want to put something in your mouth but you're not exactly hungry. Or maybe, like, a constant hunger that will never be sated.'

Matilda and Lara are half-sisters who share an unreliable mother and a chaotic past. In every other way, though, they are very different from each other. Lara, ten years younger than Matilda, is a model, living and working in Paris - for her, life is expansive, carefree, beautiful, careless.…