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Linda Grant talks to Alex Clark about her novel The Story of the Forest

Books and Authors

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Mina Pollock's Secret Book

I hope clothes really are important indicators of all sorts of things. Are you called your shortlisted novel the clothes on their backs, didn't you? They are sort of key to how you portray character. I think there's two reasons. Not quite up to mink, but will be. It's a fantastic twist to have seen that. We actually don't know what's coming. And it relates to how interested I know you are in clothes and fashion. What is a musk wash coat? What's a fur coat? So she's wearing a fur coat, but obviously not mink or sable or either. Yeah, not quite there yet.Yeah, notquite there yet

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