It was one of the most talked-about novels of 2018, a cult hit about privilege set on the cusp of the millennium. Then the pandemic made it one of the most prophetic reads of our time, says Octavia Bright.

Many of us are adapting to spending more time on our own or away from loved ones. Luckily, it's a subject writers have been obsessing over for centuries. Here's our pick of writers who offer some comfort and interesting perspectives.

Join us at VINTAGE in a year of challenging ourselves to listen, hear and respond to some of the greatest female writers history has to offer. From Margaret Atwood to Mary Wollstonecraft, revisit your favourites, discover new voices and fill your bookshelf and your year with women’s voices. They matter.

A reading guide for Ottessa Moshfegh's Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Eileen, in which a woman trapped between an alcoholic father and her job in a prison yearns for escape.