
Christy Lefteri's The Book of Fire, Artistic Directors in theatre, Palestinian Embroidery
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The Fires of Evia
In 2021, the years that that's the year that the fire happened in Evia, was three months pregnant. I wanted to do a similar thing with the book of fires, what I did with the beekeeper. It was to kind of help the reader to understand the human story, what it feels like to really be in that situation and experience that kind of trauma. Scuba put you just said about making people understand what it was like to experience it. Let's listen to an extract from near the start of the novel. When Irini and her daughter are fleeing the fire, they encounter the police who are telling everyone to stay put. A plane flew overhead through the smoke, low
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