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Oct 2021
38m 10s

Elizabeth Strout with Isy Suttie

PENGUIN BOOKS UK
About this episode

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout joins Isy Suttie to discuss the third book in her Lucy Barton series, ‘Oh, William!’.


Using objects like a ring gifted to her by a great aunt and a postcard of the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald as a starting point, Strout muses on the almost mystical process that allows her to inhabit the characters she creates, her preoccupation with class and the shame that so often sits alongside it, and the epiphany that came to her on the comedy stage. #PenguinPodcast


‘Oh, William!’ is available to order on audiobook now: https://apple.co/3EbDgV6


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