On the surface Dylan has achieved the impossible – a life in New York, eight years of making this stick. And yet it is not the thing she’d imagined. When she walks out of her career, then apartment, and into a housesit for an artist she’s never met, she does not tell her friends, her parents back in England, or Matt, her boyfriend, living on the West Coast. Job-free and rent-free, she’ll make good on her book, herself, other things, too. Sublimely fraught and erotically charged, ‘How to Be Somebody Else’ is an uncoming of age story in which Dylan is forced her to confront her future.