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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She was long listed for the Miles Franklin in 2024 for her second novel, The Sitter.
And now she's back with this book about a book.
Hi, Angela.
Hi, Claire.
Is it really true?
Do authors turn their back on books when they're finished with them?
So what's your relationship with Phantom Days right now?
Because it's finished, it's published, but you're still talking about it a lot at this point.
It's such an unusual thing to imagine what it must like to be a book, Angela O'Keefe.
When did you start thinking about this?
That's really fascinating to hear about that context because those kind of big world politics that inspired this book haven't made their way into the novel.
This is a very domestic, a very individual story about one woman who buys one book.
I am interested to know though, once you think, okay, I'm going to write chapters from the
How do you do that?
What rules do you set for yourself?
How do you decide what a book can see and think and feel?
This is fascinating.
I think it's probably making us all feel terrible about all the books left on our bedside tables.
That we haven't got to, Angela.
Full of longing.
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