Without books I wouldn’t have half as much empathy, or imagination. Kate Atkinson reminds me of my first flat, and Harry Potter conjures the time I spent working in my dad’s shoe shop, reading under the counter. Jane Eyre takes me back to a girls’ holiday to Majorca when I was 15, Wuthering Heights to the train platforms of my uni commute. I wouldn’t have half as many memories – sometimes just by scanning my bookshelf I can conjure a particular time in my life. I wouldn’t be an author, that’s for certain. If I was asked to think who I’d be without books, I’d draw a blank. Bought in a nine-way auction, The Familiars was received with much praise and was nominated for an HWA award. TV rights of The Familiars have been sold to The Bureau production company. She was media editor at The Bookseller and books editor at .uk, and has also worked as a journalist for Psychologies, the Independent and Fabulous magazine. She studied journalism at the University of Central Lancashire and moved to London aged 21. Halls grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire, as the daughter of market traders. This week, we're hearing from Stacey Halls.
Welcome to The books that shaped me - a Good Housekeeping series in which authors talk us through the reads that stand out for them.
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