I think at the start it was definitely more selfish — I was writing for myself because I enjoy creating and it’s very therapeutic to me. I hadn’t even thought about that chapter and how I was going to convey it — I was like: Am I going to change my voice? I think when it comes to something as profound as losing a parent you enter into a realm of such layered thinking, it’s so complex and amorphous. From superyachts to Alan Partridge, The Day Todayto Ghostwatch, Anna from This Life to formative sexual fantasies about prehistoric apes… here’s the Katy Wix Teleprompter interview.

Award-winning Yishai Sarid’s slender, elegantly translated novel grapples with some mighty questions, among them the myriad ways in which the Holocaust might be seen to have shaped Israel’s culture, and the complex existential politics of memorialisation and Holocaust education. I was speaking to the comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean the other day, I went on her radio show, and she was saying that the writing in Delicacy felt really Welsh at times. Afterwards, I ripped the box up into small pieces and threw them away, so that in the morning no trace of the cake could be found.I have read some really interesting stuff about the idea of sensitivity being a trait that’s inherited. As we said our goodbyes on FaceTime that Tuesday, we talked about how excited we were to watch the final series of Peep Show. I’ve dyed my hair dark, which she said was ageing, and I’ve grown it long, which she said made my neck look short. The fact this grief is followed by the loss of her father, and the crushing and unanticipated discovery of her mother’s inoperable brain tumour, is incomprehensibly tragic.

My dad was only really relaxed when he was holding a drink in his hand and could be left alone to watch another man drive a fast car – and wish it was him. I wondered how you approached writing it, and how you found the transition from the script writing you’d done previously? I still find subtle ways to avoid being vulnerable even now, and I catch myself doing it, and it’s interesting noticing when it happens. Out of sight and in my room, I opened the lid and, too scared to confront my real feelings or real emotional hungers, I began to eat and eat and eat. Of course, reading helped too, I’d recently encountered prose poetry properly for the first time and it was like a door just opened in my head and I thought, these are like scenes.the last segment was the saving grace for me, very insightful and finally helpful for anyone experiencing grief and depression. The only reason why I gave 4 stars was that, at times, I felt that the sense of time (by this I mean when things were happening in her life) could be a little hazy. I had forgotten my MySpace password so at least I didn’t have to see photos of friends getting on with their lives. This is what happens, if you’ve been body-shamed from a young age: you lose the ability to feel as though your body is your own. Considering Wix’s background as an actor and a comic, it’s perhaps unsurprising that this processing took a creative format – what might be surprising to some, however, is the prowess of her writing; the clarity and flair imbuing her prose, as well as its cutting melancholy.