But publishing, she knows, goes in cycles.

That’s because “the Venn diagram of what’s selling” – books by women, further bolstered by projects like Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club – “is absolutely overlapping with what I love”.

Right now, Jackson feels in “my happiest heyday”. That wouldn’t have happened,” she explains. And now, the New York Times Book Review put my book on the cover. It was all about Franzen and Lethem and Safran Foer, and Jennifer Weiner was making a big stink about chick lit and women’s fiction being taken seriously. “When I first started out, there was such a sexist attitude towards literary fiction, you know we were living in the age of the Jonathans. In her long career in book publishing, Jackson has seen a few playing fields shaken up. I have a lot of hope they’re going to even the playing field at some point,” she says. I think they just have a much greater social conscience than Gen X, and I don’t think they’re going to stand for income inequality. “I know it’s popular to s*** on generations younger than yours, but I am, like, all in on Gen Z. With its multi-generational cast, Pineapple Street astutely observes the quirks and tensions between boomers, millennials and Gen Z. At the heart of the novel are three women: Darley, who has given up access to her trust fund so that her husband won’t have to sign a romance-killing prenup Sasha, privately referred to as “the gold-digger” by the family she has married into and Gen Z-er Georgiana, a charity worker beginning to think her inheritance might be obscene. It charts the (quite vast) fortunes of the Stockton family, who live in Brooklyn Heights and probably own quite a lot of it. But it will also – brace yourselves, British people – have us all talking about money. Pineapple Street neatly slots into the space previously occupied by Sorrow and Bliss, Such a Fun Age and Fleishman Is in Trouble as this year’s essential smart summer read. Having been a hotshot book editor for the past two decades – Gabrielle Zevin, Katherine Heiny, Kevin Kwan and Emily St John Mandel are among her authors – Jackson knows it takes “a certain kind of artistry” to craft a novel that people want to inhale in one sitting. “I’m like, ‘Easy? Easy read? Don’t you mean wonderfully sophisticated and deeply moving and thought-provoking?’ But then” – she lights up – “a huge part of me is like… ‘yes!’” “I see that the post says, like, ‘this was such an easy read!’,” the Pineapple Street author tells me, before jokingly lowering her voice into a slightly threatening tone. Jenny Jackson’s novel has just come out and everyone is tagging her on Instagram.

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