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My Arvon Week: Alice McIlroy – from the 1970s to speculative fiction
I was stuck in the 1960s and 70s when I arrived. I had just finished John Fowles’ classic The Magus, having already read every Iris Murdoch I could find. My own prose, it seems, needed a window to be opened – and oxygen and the 21st Century let in. Lumb Bank (former home of Ted Hughes), 2017, at…
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Debut novel out January 2024
A book where things go missing; things nobody can afford to lose. Children. Memory. Identity. The Glass Woman. Out January 2024.