Katriona O'Sullivan's second memoir was 'bursting to come out'

“I wanted to tell women and men about what it’s like to be a poor woman and the things that we are sometimes prepared to do to our body and ourselves for connection and for acceptance”

Author InterviewsSep 26, 2025by Tom Tivnan

Katriona O'Sullivan © Johnny Savage

Despite thinking a follow-up to her bestselling memoir, Poor, would not be on the cards, O’Sullivan recently found herself working on a second autobiography.

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