Episode 134 - Lynn Shepherd: Part 2

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Part two of This Writing Life's conversation with Oxford-based novelist Lynn Shepherd begins with some chat about her love of 'clever crime', and how it shapes her novels like Murder in Mansfield Park and Tom All-Alones. We end this edition by discussing the other prime influence on these early historical novels: her love of classic literature, above all Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. But where does Dickens end and Lynn Shepherd begin? In between we talk novel endings, books series, Shepherd's student days (and those of Percy Shelley), and that old work-life balance.

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