Will Rycroft

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867 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6 Jul

Will Rycroft’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Waterstones Podcast · Meet the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2026 Shortlist Authors · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

I will say to readers, don't tap out.

Don't tap out.

It gets great.

Madeleine, I'm going to come to you now.

Obviously, you have a more linear timeline in your book.

So we're not talking about something structured here, but you have a completely different technical challenge, which I think is comedy.

I'm just going to read a few books that are comments before I say what I mean here.

So IJ in Edinburgh said, the funniest book I've read in a long time.

Ben in Chichester said, bonkers, laugh out loud funny.

This was a joy ride from start to finish.

And then Bailey in Warrington said, I won't beat around the bush here.

This book is fucking funny.

So some great comments there.

And I think that writing comedy is an extremely technical exercise.

But I was wondering whether you think that that's the case or do you just have funny bones?

Does it just come naturally to you?

How many times did you have to be a clown?

I think you should take Bailey's comment that this book is fucking funny and just take that back to your teachers at that school and go, Bailey thinks I've got it.

There's some interesting comments from them as well about, I suppose, about why the comedy works.

So Bailey carried on to say, each character is delightfully broken in their own way.

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