Book interview: Victoria Smith mounts a challenge to the 'Karen' trope

"There’s a particular way in which groups that try to be very hot on issues such as racism and classism, sexism and homophobia, can often give ageism a free pass because they’ve got this kind of moral vision attached to it."

Victoria Smith, English writer and columnist and author of Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

• Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
• Victoria Smith
• Fleet, hb €28