In another time and place, The Reader knows, she might have been locked up herself, in her own postnatal crises Toward the end, Lacey reads from Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion — Olivia Rodrigo, yearner extraordinaire, is also a fan — and quotes a line that feels key to Worry Doll, in which Ernaux suggests that there may be little difference between reconstruction and hallucination, memory and madness.— Declan FryTune in to ABC Radio National at 10am Mondays for The Book Show and 10am Saturdays for The Bookshelf.