Siân Hughes
Oct 26, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 20
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Episode description
Siân Hughes, Cheshire-based poet, novelist and author of the 2023 Booker Prize longlisted Pearl, dials into the studio to discuss this lyrical and open-hearted debut. Siân shares the history of the medieval poem it’s named for, the process of writing a love song to her village and her mother, and tells us why this story needed time to breathe.
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