Claire Nicholls
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2,363 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2020
last heard 13 Sep
Claire Nicholls’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is another family story and it draws on Omar Moussa's own experiences visiting his extended family in Borneo throughout his life.
So I love a novel that takes us to a new place.
I have not read a lot of fiction about Borneo and I love a book that tells us a new story.
And I think this story is really fascinating.
The family patriarch has died and his two children have to return to Borneo for his funeral.
And this is tough because they have to grapple with this man's legacy because their dad was a palm oil baron.
So at the start of the book, we meet these two kids, Rosanna and Harun.
They're living a very privileged life in Kota Kinabalu.
And their dad says he's going to take them on a trip up the river to the forest.
He wants to show the kids this magical place, take them on an adventure.
But of course, he's also there to do business.
And what happens on this trip?
Well, Sarah, it changes everything for these children who up until that moment had really idealised their dad.
And I love the way that Oma Musa does this.
It's just kind of a fact.
She goes to the toilet, she throws up feathers.
And we don't really, she doesn't stop and go, that's strange.
There's just these great touches of magic.
And I asked Oma Musa if he sees what he writes as magic realism.
She's taking a lot of ketamine too.
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