Davina Quinlivan is a research fellow at the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. For several years she has run F: For Flanerie, a series of writing and film seminars at The Freud Museum. She is also Artistic Lead with Paper Nations, an award-winning creative writing incubator funded by Arts Council England. Her writing has appeared widely, and she is the author of Shalimar (Little Toller).

'Possessions is an emotive, innovative and necessary book. Davina Quinlivan tells her story of academia and the literary world; of wanting in, getting in and then finding out just what that cost. It manages the amazing feat of being both delicate and a gut punch' Toby Litt, author of Patience

Davina Quinlivan is a research fellow at the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. For several years she has run F: For Flanerie, a series of writing and film seminars at The Freud Museum. She is also Artistic Lead with Paper Nations, an award-winning creative writing incubator funded by Arts Council England. Her writing has appeared widely, and she is the author of Shalimar (Little Toller).

'Possessions is an emotive, innovative and necessary book. Davina Quinlivan tells her story of academia and the literary world; of wanting in, getting in and then finding out just what that cost. It manages the amazing feat of being both delicate and a gut punch' Toby Litt, author of Patience

Davina Quinlivan is a research fellow at the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. For several years she has run F: For Flanerie, a series of writing and film seminars at The Freud Museum. She is also Artistic Lead with Paper Nations, an award-winning creative writing incubator funded by Arts Council England. Her writing has appeared widely, and she is the author of Shalimar (Little Toller).

'Possessions is an emotive, innovative and necessary book. Davina Quinlivan tells her story of academia and the literary world; of wanting in, getting in and then finding out just what that cost. It manages the amazing feat of being both delicate and a gut punch' Toby Litt, author of Patience