Lisa Harding: I have become associated with writing ‘unlikeable women’, a badge I wear with pride

Lisa Harding is an Irish novelist, playwright and former actor. Her novels include Harvesting, Bright Burning Things and The Wildelings. Her work explores desire, addiction and the darker edges of human behaviour with wit and psychological precision. The Wildelings is a campus novel set in 1990s Dublin, exploring creative ambition, influence and coercive control. The paperback edition is out now from Bloomsbury.