Chloe Hooper

Chloe Hooper's new novel is The Engagement. From her Q & A with Anna Metcalfe for the Financial Times: Who are your literary influences? Are influences the same as writers I like? They are Graham Greene, Janet Malcolm, Charlotte Brontë and JM Coetzee. * * * If you could own any painting, what would it be? They’re not paintings but I love Alexander Calder’s studies of the circus, full of dash