Sarah Wood

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294 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Jun

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Isabel Waidner & Sarah Wood: As If · 20 Jun 2026 podcast

I mean, there was an element of that that's almost the understudy would take over.

No, it's very funny.

I mean, it's painfully funny.

It's all of our worst nightmares, really, isn't it?

To end up trying to act when you can't.

But also your humor, it's dark humor.

So I suppose Beckett is a touch point of comparison.

But it sort of throws it out into the daylight and then says, what are you going to do with this?

It's like a really anarchic humor in the book.

Bless you.

I know.

Anyway, look for questions.

You mentioned Beckett.

That's the brilliant thing about the book and across your books, those sort of pairs or couples, and you understand that people all the time are together in this.

I mean, you make it odd so that we will see how odd we are in couples.

We're all out there in the world.

with our particular fantasies about each other.

And then that's how normal society is supposed to be.

So we're all out there with our own terror.

And then you sort of understand that you need two people to make each other up.

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