When the paramedics arrived, on hearing this, they asked if he was my partner and then I died for real, of embarrassment. At first you think you are nowhere, but if you’re lucky, you might feel as though you have travelled somewhere.

I always want to say, yeah, it was — but what’s more difficult is just making a good piece of writing. That’s partly why reading would help me so much because I could see things that were worth saying without joking. This quest for truth is felt throughout Delicacy , less in the exactness of its recounting and more in its emotional history – the understanding that our past feelings lay the foundation for the present and how, in relaying them, we might make them processable.

Because it allows us to be someone else, making it, quite simply, “the finest cultural bargain ever to come your way”. A nurse massaged my hand open because my fingers were still so tense from where they had gripped the seat. Young women were supposed to be desired and pretty, not moon-faced and depressed, pretend-eating pasta with their mums. I wondered when the spinning would end, and I wished I could ask the people watching if I was going to live.

Other friends’ dads had a comfortable, confident ease where they would loudly give an opinion and everyone had to fake agree. Wix sustained serious injuries inflicted by the seat belt which saved her life, while her father’s cracked skull and head injuries set him on a painful path of slow, degenerative dementia. But it’s so confusing because no one has to say to girls directly that food is bad but these messages are transmitted — consciously or unconsciously — through our mothers and the people around us.

There are points where I think some of the conceits employed as vehicles to speak about those things got in the way, which was a little frustrating. Then when she had a stand-in for a couple of episodes I was something like intrigued (too nosy/cold) or concerned (too earnest). This was the most I had ever done for my emotional wellbeing and I have my friend to thank for that. Sometimes it would be of Brecon on a sunny day, sometimes it would be a little sketch he had done of a castle.

Afterwards, I ripped the box up into small pieces and threw them away, so that in the morning no trace of the cake could be found. She didn't name-drop to 'impress' us with who she has worked alongside, but she also didn't divulge all information, so for example, although she did discuss incidents which had happened to her within her acting life, she wasn't completely lifting the veil and bringing other people into the spotlight. As I was writing it, I thought things like, This is so kind of me and, This is the right thing to do and, It feels good to do the right thing and, How nice of her.She plays Fergie in royal satire The Windsors, and was among the comedian-contestants in series nine of Taskmaster. They had finally figured out how to never obey their appetites and to always remain hungry, and had, at last, become lovable and fuckable.

One of my best mates was bemoaning that her boyfriend’s not into reality TV, but boys can watch Below Decktoo. No, that’s definitely not how I feel,’ and she said, ‘Well, don’t send it then,’ and I thought, What a good therapist. It made me think of a quote from Kazuo Ishiguro: “In the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Photograph: Roo Lewis/The Observer ‘I know exactly what he would think about himself dying and me being left behind, with all my half of our private jokes’: Katy Wix. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.Caragh Medlicott: Talking about shifts in tone, something I really liked about Delicacy was the variety of writing styles.