Michelle de Kretser: Scary Monsters

World Book Club by BBC

Apr 5, 202549:20Society & Culture

Harriett Gilbert talks with Michelle de Kretser about her eighth novel, Scary Monsters, which won the 2023 Rathbones Folio Fiction Prize. This diptych novel consists of the tale of two immigrants, one in the past, and on...

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