Miranda Pountney is a writer based in London. She holds a BA in English Literature from Oxford University and an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. How to Be Somebody Else is her first novel.
A stunning novel. Remarkable and real. Every single line is supercharged with a kind of cerebral eroticism, a zinging inventive intelligence. The sentences buzz and hum -- Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital Sharp and entertaining * Daily Mail * Impressive… A book founded on the anxiety that undermines our drive towards attachment and stability, and it thrives on a constant sense of slippage and precarity, a jumpy exploration of what it might feel like to cede control, and what might take its place * Observer * Pountney has an admirable clarity of voice and her book is consistently impressive… Intelligent, confident and original * Times Literary Supplement * How to Be Somebody Else has literary oomph... What sets this debut apart is the way it sustains its sparky style to the last page without stinting on the serious stuff * Sunday Times *