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Sophie Mackintosh & Rebecca Watson: Cursed Bread

London Review Bookshop Podcast

CHAPTER

The Importance of Permeable Reality

Cursed Bread is based incredibly loosely on a true story which in 1951, the town of Pomp Santa's Street in South France was a mass poisoning event. The backdrop of the poisoning became a setting for thinking about how permeable reality can be and what happens to our relationships with each other against that kind of background. When I recall the first time I met Violet, it embarrasses me. I hold the memories up to the lights and think, did it really happen like this? And even if it did, why not tell it differently? More generously. Why don't I pretend even to myself? There's nobody left to know, nobody who could catch me out. She picked me out

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