Sally Hepworth

We don't know the writer.

But they said these characters are a third someone you know, a third made up and a third yourself.

And while I don't necessarily, what I think is myself is the narrative that comes on the page.

It's not necessarily a character or a thing, but it's the wisdom that I'm searching for in that book.

And I have a new book coming out later this year.

It's called Mad Mabel.

Yes, I've read Mad Mabel.

Yeah.

I haven't had a lot of people read it yet.

So it's been, I love hearing that feedback.

Well, I got it in the...

Yeah, the early, the art.

Yeah, it's in like a binder.

Oh, they sent you a bound copy.

Yeah, I've got, yeah, I don't know what that's called.

Well, that's even different from an advanced reader copy.

Yeah, because I've seen the cover online and I'm like, oh, that's how it's going to look.

Well, I think, so the big thing that's come out of my life experience is that book,

And it's funny because you read the blurb and it's about an 81-year-old curmudgeonly, you know, I had so much joy writing that character, who finds her neighbour dead and no one suspects anything until they find out that she in fact was not a serial killer, like was convicted of murder when she was 15 years old and we go back in time to find that out.

But the book, unlikely as it seems, is about friendship.