Louise Doughty: ‘I can’t bear anything chicklitty or girly’

The novelist on why her new heroine is a ghost trapped at Peterborough station, writing a book aged 11, and what she’d say to Emily BrontëLouise Doughty is a novelist, playwright and journalist. Her 2010 novel, Whatever You Love, was shortlisted for the Costa novel award and the Orange prize, while her bestselling novel Apple Tree Yard was adapted by the BBC into a four-part drama starring Emily Watson and Ben Chaplin. Her most recent novel, Platform Seven, tackles suicide, coercive c