The Great Gig in the Sky by Pink Floyd is a song Joty grew up hearing so much. She says it's something that really unlocks her as a writer when she hits a wall. The prologue shows Maya, Avni, Ellia all just existing and being excited for life. There are so many songs in the novel too because music is such an important part of my life.
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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