JOANNE HARRIS In Person With Paul

JOANNE HARRIS chats to Paul Burke about her new novel A NARROW DOOR, being a schoolteacher, why genres fluid, misogyny and memory.A NARROW DOOR Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules.It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls.Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered.But Rebecca is here to make her mark. She'll bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before. After all...You can't keep a good woman down.JOANNE HARRIS is the internationally renowned and award-winning author of eighteen novels, plus novellas, scripts, short stories, libretti, lyrics, articles, and most recently, a self-help book for writers, TEN THINGS ABOUT WRITING. In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and is Chair of the Society of Authors.Her hobbies are listed in Who's Who as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion'. She is active on Twitter, where she writes stories and gives writing tips as @joannechocolat; she posts weekly writing seminars on YouTube; she performs in a live music and storytelling show with the #Storytime Band; and she works from a shed in her garden at her home in Yorkshire.RECOMMENDATIONS:Mycelium Running Paul StametsPieces of Light Charles FernyhoughProduced by JUNKYARD DOGMusic by SOUTHGATE & LEIGHCrime TimeProduced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 20242024 Slaughterfest,

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