Alison Canavan, model

IN MY business you spend so much time travelling, so I read a good bit.

On the beach, I'll be reading two novels by Jane Green: Girl Fridayand Babyville. She is really interesting for women in their 30s, exploring women's lives, relationships and motherhood. Green's insights are very true to life.

The Last to Know,by Melissa Hill, is another relationship-based and character-driven novel where the characters ask: "Am I doing the right thing? Am I going in the right direction?" We all do that.

Investing for Women,by Kim Kiyosaki, is relevant to me as well, because women invest differently than men and after 17 years of modelling, I want to make my money work for me, especially now that I'm having a child.

I did Buddhist meditation living in New York, so I plan to read How To Solve a Human Problemby Geshe Kelsang, a Buddhist monk, which is about how to understand the difficulties in our lives in the current climate.

As told to Kate Holmquist