S8, Ep8 How to Fail: Bernardine Evaristo
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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Go Home and Other
Go Home and Other is such a wonderful novel in so many ways. It's just an astonishing book, and if anyone hasn't read it, they must rush out to do so now. But along with a variety of cultural backgrounds, sexuality as classes and occupations, you also have a big age range. You write characters from the age of 19 to 93. Which age did you find easiest to write, or most informative to write? And did you find it very easy to embody a 19 year old as well as a 93 year old? Nobody's asked me that. I found it extremely, perhaps, worryingly easy to occupy the mind of a 19-year-old. Even Hattie
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