Author Meg Mason: ‘Sad Girl Lit is offensive. Where is the equivalent tag in books written and read by men?’

Five years after the publication of her darkly funny and touching bestseller ‘Sorrow and Bliss’, Meg Mason turns her attention to loneliness and literary obsession in ‘Sophie, Standing There’. The New Zealand author talks about navigating reader expectations, why parasocial relationships aren’t all bad, and the real-life writers who inspired some of the hilarious moments in her new novel