From the works of Enid Blyton to Jilly Cooper, Sykes also shared the titles that influenced her throughout her childhood, adolescence and adulthood and altered her way of thinking.

Cooper, she said, was her “comfort author”, alongside Marian Keyes. “We Need To Talk About Kevin (by Lionel Shriver) was another book that really had an impression on me,” she told the audience. “It just stayed with me. As did The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (by Milan Kundera), which was the first bit of philosophy that I had read. And then One Day by David Nicholls, which is just a perfect example of a book that’s written beautifully but is hugely commercially successful.”

Her “to-read” list, however, includes Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove and Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain. “I have around 10 books on my bedside table that I’m currently reading and 10 on the radiator in my bedroom that are next,” she said. “Then outside my bedroom is another shelf with 10 more. It’s like a triage.”

Stylist Live Sessions: Pandora Sykes on the books that changed her life, and how she’ll always find comfort in reading