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Jul 2023
46m 33s

Isabella Hammad with Isy Suttie

PENGUIN BOOKS UK
About this episode

This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie is joined by another of Granta's Best of Young British novelists, award-winning novelist, Isabella Hammad.


Isabella Joins us to discuss her new novel, Enter Ghost.


Also in the episode the two discuss how observing the real world helps form fictional characters, how stories can evolve and eventually become part of a communal identity, the significance of a roof in Isabella’s childhood and the importance of the sea in her new novel.


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