I think it's any sort of establishment where you're trying to teach art I think we'll have someone in a corner somewhere crying who's thought they've created something that's so perfect from their soul and they've been absolutely massacred for it. did you find it daunting trying to create the atmosphere of this deep love that exists between Avani for her son Nick? It was incredibly daunting to write an authentic relationship between a mother and son but also I wanted to write it outside of all of the stereotypes that we see in literature when we are allowed to exist an art in the western world it's so full of stereotypes.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal Arthanayake is joined by the second winner of Stormzy's Merky Books Prize, and she was also one of the Observer's best new novelists, it's Jyoti Patel.
Jyoti joins us to discuss her debut novel, The Things That We Lost, a story of family, loss and how far we go to protect those we love.
Also discussed on the podcast is the experience of mixing British and Gujarati cultures, the privilege of studying the arts, the importance of being your authentic self, the idea of the perfect sentence, and where it is that Jyoti feels the writer's life most intensely.
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