Forget the latest releases. Go back to your childhood, your adolescence, your stuffy English classroom, or reading in bed after lights out with a torch ...

What book made you want to write?

What book changed the way you do write?

When you're being interviewed as the rising star of the literary world for Vanity Fair and Wayne Lawson asks you 'what book changed your life' what would your answer be?

From Enid Blyton to Francine Pascall, from CS Lewis to Jane Austen and all the Zadie Smiths and Ian McEwans in between, we want to hear about that illuminating, oh-so-special-to-you book that made you want to write - and why it gave you your oh-my-god-this-is-what-I-want-to-do moment.

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