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Deborah Levy & Stephen Grosz: August Blue

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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The Doppelgangers of Septimus

When you were writing COVID, I wondered if it had an effect on the book. The whole sort of catastrophe of war and virus together is something that we all living through. It's something that Virginia will of course live through because what was called the Spanish flu, the global influenza pandemic, and the ending of the First World War sort of happened together. So it's really very, it's a sort of perfect decision to start Mrs. De Laue with woman buying flowers. How clever is a?

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