Philippa Perry: ‘I love Marian Keyes. I like the feeling of gossiping – it’s a way of making sense of the world’

Philippa Perry is an artist, psychotherapist and bestselling author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read and The Book You Want Everyone You Love* to Read? (*And Maybe a Few You Don’t). Her first novel, Shrink Solves Murder, is out now and published by Hutchinson Heinemann. Her husband is artist Grayson Perry and their daughter Florence is an artist and illustrator.