S5 Ep51: Barbara Trapido, novelist

This week's guest is the beloved novelist Barbara Trapido, who I met at her home in Oxford in March 2023. Barbara's first novel was 1982's Brother of the More Famous Jack , which was published when she was 41; she followed it with Noah's Ark ( 1984) , Temples of Delight (1990), Juggling (1994), The Travelling Hornplayer (1998), Frankie & Stankie (2003) and Sex & Stravinsky (2010). She's now in her early eighties, and talked to me about finding the energy to write in later life; her playful philosophy of writing; and her memories of introducing a young, then-aspiring novelist Maggie O'Farrell to her first agent. You can find Barbara's novels here in the In Writing bookshop: Please do

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S5 Ep51: Barbara Trapido, novelist is an episode from In Writing with Hattie Crisell.

This episode is 42:34 long.

This episode was published on Apr 21, 2023.

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