Isabel Waidner

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457 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Jun

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Isabel Waidner & Sarah Wood: As If · 20 Jun 2026 podcast

What do you want to, I'm going to make Isabel read.

We were half thinking that because most people probably haven't read any of it yet.

So I was just going to read like the beginning, just like the first couple of pages or something.

Or more to the point, I'm going to read to a particular point that Sarah instructed me to read to.

Very strict.

I think it's on my instructions.

just sort of like for three minutes or so just so that you kind of get a sense of what some of this is about and also the opening in this particular case it sort of frames everything that comes after it sort of sets up the whole situation for us isn't it yeah it's it

So I'm just, I'm not going to summarize it or give you any, I mean, maybe I'll just say a couple of sentences.

It's about two guys, they meet in a London flat.

And as you'll see pretty much from the beginning, they're strangers, but there are sort of certain overlaps between them.

Like they look a little bit alike and they look completely alike.

They're like us, for example, we have a...

We didn't plan this.

So same with my characters.

They are also really alike, but maybe even more alike.

And there's also some certain overlaps and resonances between their respective backstories, as it turns out.

And then this kind of entire book...

evolves around that premise.

They sort of start living as each other and also in a strange way for each other.

So they become obsessed and fixated with each other, arguably at the cost of more what really matters in a way.

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