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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How about you Stephanie?
That's a fantastic answer, Stephanie.
Thank you so much for sharing that.
And Tara?
That's really interesting.
You've sort of slightly preempted what I was going to ask you actually to start off with, Tara, because what I've noticed is that with these three books, the responses from the booksellers has obviously been incredibly personal.
One of our booksellers in Romsey called Emily
said that they were 14 when the Boxing Day tsunami happened.
And I can remember how it shook the world.
It was the first natural disaster on that scale that I had seen.
The best books change my perception and bring something I thought I knew into a different light.
And this book is one of those, which I thought was a really interesting thing to say about Underwater.
As you say, you have your personal response to it, but then turning it into fiction is something very different.
So I wondered...
having had that sort of person, because I think you were in Singapore, weren't you, when it happened?
But sort of then your approach to writing about it, having watched that, as you say, horrible footage, what was it that you wanted, I suppose, to communicate through your depiction of the actual tsunami and its immediate aftermath?
Absolutely.
Ji Young, a bookseller called Lara in Plymouth, said that whilst they were aware of the historical weight in your book from reading the synopsis, they were wholly unprepared for the emotional depth that it would bring and how long it would linger in their mind after they turned the last page.
I will hold my hands up and say that I was wholly unaware of the sort of story of the comfort women, these women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese armed forces.
Is it something that you were always aware of?
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