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'In this moment, I had to be there' — Patricia Lockwood on writing about the life and death of a child

May 31, 202154 min
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The privilege of writing about the loss of a child: Women's Prize shortlisted author Patricia Lockwood on No One Is Talking About This which is laugh-out-loud funny in the first half, and is cry-out-loud devastating in the second half.

And Sincerely, Ethel Malley in which Stephen Orr resuscitates the great Australian literary hoax of Ern Malley but with a twist: he reimagines a life for Ern's made-up sister, a woman called Ethel.

'In this moment, I had to be there' — Patricia Lockwood on writing about the life and death of a child | The Book Show podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast