Writers on books they regret: 'It's like a bad breakup – you have to move on'

Ever read something you wrote and thought it was rubbish? Viv Groskop, Sathnam Sanghera and others offer their advice for bouncing back from the post-publishing blues

My first book came out a year ago. It wasn’t a bestseller, and it wasn’t intended to be one. In Spite of Oceans: Migrant Voices is a quiet book of short stories based on real, everyday family lives. The stories are about how people deal with the messy stuff life throws at them; about relationships coming together, or unfolding, or crumpling under the tension of it all.

Over the course of the last year, I have started to feel out of sorts about the book. Several copies of it lie in my hallway cupboard, next to a box of old doorkeys, unintentionally kept over the years.

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