Hattie Crisell
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 27 Jun
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I was pretty oblivious.
I suppose slightly relatedly, I think in this book, you sort of revisited a demographic that featured a bit in your novel Capital, which came out in 2013?
2012.
Oh, sorry, 2012, which is the sort of, as you said, the smug married, the smug upper middle-class people of London,
Some of us in the room, probably.
But I wondered whether you think in the last 14 years since that book come out, whether the events of the economy and politics have punctured London's smugness at all, or whether...
You mean proportionately to the size of the country?
Yeah, I don't know an upbeat way to finish that topic, so I'll just move on.
On that bombshell.
Where did the title of the book come from?
That's so heartbreaking, that moment.
It is.
So your last novel was 2019.
It was published with The Wall.
Although I know you've written a collection of short stories since then and published that.
But what was it like to get back to novel writing?
Did it feel...
Did you have any real dark nights of the cell writing this one?
Yeah.
In a minute, I'm going to ask for questions.
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