Kate Scarth

So there's, you know, these horrible acts of violence that are being reported.

Not like maybe rectified in a way.

It makes me think of Ian McEwan's Atonement, right?

And how what's little girl grows up and she writes the sister and Robbie's story so that they get that happy ending.

And so in some way, I think these books are all doing a similar thing.

In terms of the postcard and the five, it's with, well, no, it's actually, they actually all have real people at the heart of them, right?

They're all rooted in historical figures who have been involved in an act of violence.

And it's all about how creativity and storytelling can honor people and their lives.

Does that make sense?

Yeah.

And there's also just something about the connection between humans.

And that is clear through like a storytelling, having that curiosity about other people that you want to tell their stories and write it down so that they're not forgotten.

But family connections are also really strong here.

Like in Ghost in the Throat, it's a mother caring for her young children as she researches a mother from, you know, 250 years ago.

And The Postcard is about finding family who were lost in the Holocaust.

And The Five, like Hayley Rubenhold shows that, you know, often these women were kind of dismissed, well, they were, you know, just in quotes, prostitutes.

But, you know, in The Five, they come alive as

mothers and daughters and friends.

And so it's about people being in connection with each other as well.

And I think that's, I really love that, like stories about individuals, but also where you get a sense of the historical moment, whether that's 2020 or, I don't know, 1750.