You realise that you are probably trying to fulfil your parents’ unrealised creative dreams, and yet she demonstrates to you that womanhood equals martyrdom. He anchors it in his early experiences as an identical twin, and, through works by authors from Sophocles to Toni Morrison, shows us how the shapeshifting that they enable alters and expands our own sense of self.

org With 2023 coming to a close, we take a look back at some of the best art and cultural offerings to come out of Wales this year. No, that’s definitely not how I feel,’ and she said, ‘Well, don’t send it then,’ and I thought, What a good therapist. Wix is one of those performers who just makes things funnier, better; she is comic to her core, whether playing bolshy estate agent Carole in Stath Lets Flats or an overblown Fergie in The Windsors. When she finally achieves the goal of ‘thinness’ in her early twenties she is appalled to find that “being thin means nothing” – a revelation which means facing up to the perpetually undelivered societal promise that “someone would meet my outrageous needs if I could just memorise a few weight-loss tips”. I just remember… contained rage for that whole year, just wanting to scream at people, ‘I’m not coping with this.

The book took three years to finish “because life kept getting in the way and people kept dying,” she says. Wix sustained serious injuries inflicted by the seat belt which saved her life, while her father’s cracked skull and head injuries set him on a painful path of slow, degenerative dementia. It’s true that those familiar with Wix’s television work might have anticipated a very different book, one reflective of her quick humour and wit, but Delicacy is still darkly – and fabulously – funny.

Print edition of BTO British Trust for Ornithology News landed today - winter edition containing a marvellous review by Lesley Hindley of our book by Jasmine Donahaye: Birdsplaining: A Natural History. The bullying Wix experienced at school as a teenager and carried forward the effects of into adulthood sparked a painful sympathy in me. She was 35 when “D” died and is 40 now; sometimes she feels like she lost her last few years of having fun. Katy Wix shares moments of trauma from her adolescence and adulthood and explains how cake has become associated in her mind with the awfulness of life. Being silly is still really important and the two sitting side by side is the sign of a healthy person.The last book you read before you die is like the type of coin that gets put under your tongue for Charon. org/best-welsh-non-fiction-books-of-2023/ Our book Birdsplaining: A Natural History by Jasmine Donahaye makes the Wales Arts Review 2023 pick of the year for nonfiction! Without the magazines there, to remind me that I should constantly be trying to improve myself and my body, then I would descend into chaos, happiness even. p>The data controller is Headline Publishing Group Limited.