Mireille Dushaw

Thomas.

Yes, yes.

Yes.

I did.

And that was, yeah, it was terrific because I just would love if someone might come forward as a result of publishing about it and it gets reprinted.

It feels like it's very of our time as well, this book, because, and in fact, in America, quite a few people have been collecting dreams under Trump.

So...

It would be interesting to compare and contrast.

I definitely noticed that my concentration has suffered from being in front of screens.

And because I've recently done some judging work in which I had to read many, many texts, that was really good for me because it actually, I realised that reading was like a muscle that I had to keep exercising.

And so to get through the amount that I had to read

I could feel myself being able to read longer and longer and longer as I went along, but definitely at the beginning it was hard to get through a large quantity of reading, whereas once upon a time that would have been a joy and something I didn't even think about.

So I really, I am really noticing it now.

I just finished reading a book by a Norwegian writer, and I'm not sure if I can pronounce her name correctly, but it's Hjort, I think.

Yeah, yeah.

And I heard about this novel a little while ago.

I think I might have read a piece in The New Yorker about it.

It's sort of receiving a lot of or has received because it first came out in 2016 in Norwegian and has only just been translated into English and received quite a lot of attention when it came out because it involves a sort of question around

the line between fiction and reality.

It's centred on a woman's account of her, a family member abusing her.