Sophie White: I said yes to every bit of work, no matter what. I ended up in St John of Gods

A ‘figurehead’ for female creatives, Sophie White is a gleaming example of a modern woman. Edel Coffey chats to her about her new novel, The Snag List

Sophie White is a journalist, literary essayist, novelist, podcaster and founder of Rogue Collective.

Finding yourself in middle age can come as a bit of a shock. Add to that shock, the creeping suspicion that you might be past it, might have missed out on your chance to be the thing you always dreamed of being, whilst moving into a three-bed semi-D in suburbia, and you’ve got perfect conditions for a mid-life crisis. Writer Sophie White’s latest novel The Snag List explores that very question.

“For our generation, reaching those impasses is different to how it might have felt for our parents and their parents,” White says, “because we’ve come up in this age of endless possibilities. And yet, when it comes down to it, we all get shunted down into the same confines. Do we get to a point in our lives where we have to accept that some things are now off the menu, out of reach, we’ll never be able to go back and do that thing?”