Cassie McCullagh

That's Kate Moss from an interview with RN about her earlier Carcassonne and Languedoc series.

where she's also set this new series, The Burning Chambers.

Now, Fiona, there's also a love story in this.

How important is that to the forward motion of the book and is it successful?

And you've never used that, Fiona Lowe.

Oh, well, we've got Lynne Malcolm here.

And that Ken Follett book I was trying to think of is called A Column of Fire.

Lisa Genova, we should say, is a neuroscientist as well as a novelist.

Her first novel, Still Alice, about a woman with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, was made into a film in 2014.

You might have seen it.

It won Julianne Moore the Academy Award for Best Actress.

That film was directed by Richard Glatzer, who had motor neuron disease and died not long after the Academy Awards.

And she did.

The writer Lisa Genova from a 2016 interview with Lynne Malcolm, our guest here on the Bookshelf.

She's also the host of All in the Mind on RN.

And we'll put a link to your interview, Lynne, on the Bookshelf website.

It's a fantastic interview.

And that's before he gets unwell.

What a heroic act, in fact.

And I suppose it happens.