John Lanchester

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548 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 27 Jun

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · John Lanchester & Hattie Crisell: Look What You Made Me Do · 27 Jun 2026 podcast

And it doesn't actually work because it's still getting the mood swings, but it helps if I can then say to myself, well, this is part of the process.

I have felt this before.

It's normal to not like it, just have to kind of persevere.

So I planned it pretty much.

Let me think about that.

No, yeah.

planned it at length and in detail, pretty much exactly as it is.

But then, by the time I'd written it then, I was so marinated it, I then did need help checking, because a lot depends on when the reader realizes various things.

And I got past the point of being able to tell.

So it's super useful having Miranda, who's in the audience, as the first reader who didn't know the story.

And she's very, very quick on, she can always spot plot things very early.

So it was incredibly helpful having her read it.

I mean, that's always helpful in multiple ways, but in this particular way, it was indispensable because I know no one's quicker than her.

So the point at which she would see something come in

I don't know, they really would say.

So in the margin, there's various things.

By this point, I have realised that.

And that's helpful.

That's very helpful.

No, I think the latter.

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