Stephen Lovatt shares his favourite books and reading life
Actor Stephen Lovatt discusses the books that have shaped him, from childhood discoveries to modern literature that moves him.
In an interview for The Spinoff Books Confessional, Stephen Lovatt reveals the books that matter most to him across different categories of reading experience. He names Samantha Harvey's Orbital as the book he wishes he'd written, discusses how Anne Holm's I Am David transformed him as a young reader, and describes the emotional impact of works by Cormac McCarthy and George Eliot. Lovatt also reflects on why he avoids rereading Kurt Vonnegut and champions Gordon Slatter's A Gun In My Hand as an underrated New Zealand novel.
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