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Apr 2023
48m 10s

Sophie Mackintosh & Rebecca Watson: Curs...

LONDON REVIEW BOOKSHOP
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Based on the true story of an unsolved mystery, Sophie Mackintosh’s new novel, Cursed Bread (Hamish Hamilton), centres on a small village community upturned by the arrival of a glamourous couple. Jo Hamya calls the book‘sensuous and haunted, like Madame Bovary reworked as a ghost story’. Mackintosh was in conversation with Rebecca Watson, author of Little Sc ... Show More
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