Lauren J. Joseph

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572 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 22 Jun

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Finlay and Polly are...

Charlie's best friends.

And in the next one, Polly is good friends with the new protagonist, Sam, her best friend.

So they're all kind of linked and they all kind of do pass through Berlin one way or the other.

And at certain points we touch, Bibi comes back to Europe, goes to see her friend Finlay in Berlin.

And then obviously this is set in Berlin.

In the new book, they take a kind of disastrous trip to Berlin, Sam and her friend who misses the flight and sets chaos into motion.

So yeah, they do all interlock.

And I wrote a novella in 2014, and on the cover of that is a picture of Alexander Geist.

who is one of the protagonists of this book.

Yeah, I really, I love doing that actually.

I like, it makes sense for me to do that.

And also I become very connected and involved with characters.

You find though with novelists, they often write the same character again and again.

So why not just- Iris Murdoch.

Yes.

Why not just let them wander through?

Like Fassbinder working with an ensemble cast.

It really makes sense.

But what I also love about-

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