Eat My Heart Out

Zoe Pilger (born 1984) is an English author and art critic, daughter of journalists John Pilger and Yvonne Roberts. She studied social and political sciences at Cambridge University and earned an MA in Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London, later pursuing a PhD there on romantic love in female artists' work. Her debut novel, Eat My Heart Out (2014), a post-feminist satire, won the Betty Trask Award and Somerset Maugham Award; she served as art critic for The Independent from 2012 to 2016.