228 – Sophie White & An Island of Formless Dread

Ready to hear a conversation about some devastatingly dark things?

Sophie White and I have got you covered!

In this expansive chat, we talk about her calculatingly distressing novel, Where I End – in which an isolated island community plays host to the worst, cruellest kind of loneliness. And that books is a springboard for others things, psychosis, weaponised empathy, real-life atrocity and the way that all that darkness can seep into a place forever.

But then we also have a good old chat about books we love, and we swear a lot… so there’s a bright side.

This is a key conversation for me. A pivotal episode.

Enjoy!

Other books mentioned:

• Recipes For a Nervous Breakdown (2016), by Sophie White
• Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows (2020), by Sophie White
• Apt Pupil (1982), by Stephen King
• The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Girl Next Door (1989), by Jack Ketchum
• Sharkheart: A Love Story (2023), by Emily Habeck
• The Lamb (2025), by Lucy Rose
• Tender is the Flesh (2017), by Augustina Bazterrica
• Lunar Park (2005), by Bret Easton Ellis
• Our Wives Under the Seas (2022), by Julia Armfield
• Follow Me To Ground (2018), by Sue Rainsford

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