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Diana Evans
Diana Evans is a journalist and novelist
February 2025What we're readingWhat we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in JanuaryAuthors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month4
Feb 2025 18.30 CET…… commentsJanuary 2025‘When a woman needs more than ever to take care of herself, she is pulled away in two directions’: Diana Evans on the ‘sandwich generation’Work has
always been central to the novelist’s existence. So what happened when she found herself caring for her elderly mother and two children – and suddenly unable to write?25 Jan 2025 12.00
CETMay 2023Can a monarchy sit easy in modern Britain?Diana EvansWith the queen gone, Charles faces an uphill battle to convince a struggling public this is all still worth it, writes Diana
Evans3 May 2023 14.00 CESTApril 2022Viola Davis on Hollywood: ‘You either have to be a Black version of a white ideal, or you have to be white’She rose from poverty to become the first Black
person to win acting’s triple crown. Now she is playing Michelle Obama and opening up about her tough path to the top18 Apr 2022 13.00 CESTJune 2021Summer books: Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary
Mantel, Richard Osman and more on what they’re reading Authors share the books they have enjoyed reading this year, including a hilarious dark comedy, poetry and a study of mystery
illnesses 5 Jun 2021 09.00 CESTDecember 2020Book of the dayLuster by Raven Leilani review – a debut of exceptional powerHumour combines with crystalline prose in the story of a young
American woman at the intersection of capitalism, racism and sexism26 Dec 2020 08.30 CETJune 2020Overcoming fears, discovering nature ... what I have learned from lockdownAs lockdown eases,
authors including Anne Enright, Mark Haddon and Sebastian Barry reflect on what they have learned – and what comes next13 Jun 2020 10.00 CESTApril 2020The sadness of lockdownThe hope of an
open field: sadness defines life right now – but nature and technology can helpNo positive affirmations can make this moment go away. We have to look pain in the face – and treat it and
ourselves with compassion7 Apr 2020 15.00 CESTAugust 2019Whatever happened to author Dorothy West?Writing alongside Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, West was the last surviving member
of the Harlem Renaissance. Diana Evans asks: why were her books overlooked for so long?16 Aug 2019 12.00 CESTMay 2019Books that made meDiana Evans: ‘I had a deep affection for Lear – he
reminded me of my father’The novelist on her struggle with Don DeLillo, feeling changed by Arundhati Roy and why Philip Pullman is not just for children10 May 2019 11.00 CESTApril 2019Book
of the dayQueenie by Candice Carty-Williams review – timely and importantHailed as the black Bridget Jones, this is a moving and entertaining portrait of love and race today12 Apr 2019 08.30
CESTMarch 2019Further reading'Ways out of the darkness': books for helping with lossElena Ferrante’s novel about the end of a marriage, Isabelle Allende’s heartbreaking memoir …
Diana Evans picks five key works18 Mar 2019 08.00 CET…… commentsAugust 2018Book of the dayHeart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot review – a raw, rich indigenous memoirA bestselling portrayal
of sexual abuse, racial cruelty and addiction is enlivened by wry, deadpan humour and an account of a strong mother-daughter bond4 Aug 2018 08.30 CEST…… commentsJune 2018New mothers, welcome
to a world of guiltDiana EvansFrom breastfeeding to ‘helicopter parenting’, giving birth transports women into a life full of shaming and judgment, says novelist Diana Evans22 Jun 2018
07.00 CEST…… commentsMay 2018My unforgettable summerDiana Evans: ‘The summer I went on a writing retreat – and learned to risk everything’29 May 2018 16.00 CESTMichael Curry’s royal wedding
sermon will go down in historyDiana Evans20 May 2018 17.39 CEST…… commentsApril 2018Happiness by Aminatta Forna review – love in the urban wildernessFrom foxes to parakeets, London’s animal
population is as closely observed as its human inhabitants, in this tale of connection and coexistence sparked by a chance meeting on Waterloo Bridge5 Apr 2018 10.00 CEST…… commentsMarch
2017Stay With Me by Ayòbámi Adébáyò review – a big-hearted Nigerian debutA woman’s desperate attempts to get pregnant, and the subsequent agonies of loss, are vividly captured in this
Baileys-longlisted novel9 Mar 2017 16.00 CET…… commentsJanuary 2017Book of the dayHomegoing by Yaa Gyasi review – the wounds inflicted by slaveryAn unflinching portrayal of the slave trade
explores its impact down the generations, from 18th-century west Africa to the modern-day US13 Jan 2017 08.30 CET…… commentsOctober 2013Pig's Foot by Carlos Acosta – reviewDiana Evans joins
Carlos Acosta on a wild, heady flight of imagination30 Oct 2013 15.00 CET…… commentsAbout 23 results for Diana Evans12