The crossover between fashion and fiction in literature is a great one. Across cultures and across the centuries, clothing and costume have been integral to plot and character. The
Orange Prize winning novelist Linda Grant has always written brilliantly about fashion in her fiction. Her novels The Cast Iron Shore and The Clothes On Their Backs make clothes
Linda Grant is the next writer talking Fashion and Fiction at the V&A. The event will be chaired by Rosie Goldsmith and is on 29 September. Linda Grant was born in Liverpool on
