Sara Baume: "I feel like my peers, especially women, are writing about family, relationships and motherhood... I wanted to create a different story about being in your late thirties and forties"

“As the first line of Opening Night reveals, I met Mollie’s paintings before I met her, and then I looked her up,” Baume recalls. It’s one of many heartfelt expressions of Baume and Douthit’s friendship and their everyday lives in Opening Night. I feel like my peers, especially women, are writing about family, relationships and motherhood, and I find all of these stories fascinating and enjoyable. “With Opening Night, however, I wanted to create a different story about being in your late thirties and forties. Advertisement• Opening Night is on shelves now.