Claire Lynch on A Family Matter

In this episode, Tom speaks to Claire Lynch about her powerful debut novel A Family Matter, a story that moves between two generations of the same family and explores love, secrecy, and the lasting consequences of the past.Set partly in 1982, the novel follows Dawn, a young wife and mother whose life changes when she forms a relationship that challenges the rigid expectations of the time. Decades later, her daughter Maggie begins to uncover the truth about what really happened and why her mother disappeared from her life.Claire and Tom discuss the real historical cases that shaped the novel, domestic detail in fiction, reader responses to the book, and what it means for a debut novel to win the 2025 Nero Gold Prize. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.