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Sophie Mackintosh & Rebecca Watson: Cursed Bread

London Review Bookshop Podcast

CHAPTER

The Poisoning of Elodie Kisbury

The story follows Elodie, the baker's wife, and her obsession with this new glamorous couple who come to the town. And it's kind of told in retrospect, right? So we have the, the biggest white melody and she's remembering these things, or kind of like asserting what's happened to her. And in tweed as well, these like letters that she writes to Violet. I was really interested in when you decided that you would tell the story in retrospect, rather than kind of putting us into a happening life. What was it about what you get from kind of a retrospective telling that convinced you? In the writing of the book, it was really hard figuring out the

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