Novelist Megan Nolan on sobriety, self-revelation and SoulCycle

I started going to SoulCycle in April last year because it was as far away from my natural inclinations as anything could be, and I was interested in testing myself. I had moved to New York a few months prior and, though the move was years in the making and decades in idle fantasising, still it had winded me, and left me feeling dazed and without a stable identity. When I was preparing to leave London I joked with thin bravado about how I was leaving everything, all the nesting objects I…