This week, Jack is joined by novelist Sophie Mackintosh. Sophie's first book, The Water Cure, was published in 2018 and was long-listed for that year's Booker Prize. In 2020 came her second novel, Blue Ticket, and this year she published the haunting and dreamlike Cursed Bread, which was long-listed for the Women's Prize. Sophie was also included in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list.

(0:23) Introduction
(1:11) Building rapport with readers
(4:46) Childhood reading
(14:59) Writing from reality
(22:49) Recent reading
(29:30) Cursed Bread

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Cursed Bread is published in the UK by Penguin Books

Books mentioned in this episode include:
Junk by Melvin Burgess - ISBN: 9781783440627
The Magic Toy Shop by Angela Carter - ISBN: 9780860681908
Close to Home by Michael McGee - ISBN: 9780241582978
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein - ISBN: 9781783789931
Sea State by Tabitha Lasley - ISBN: 9780008390976
The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave - ISBN: 9781529005219

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