Eva Meijer live in Leeds and panoramic crisis fiction based on personal experience

What a lovely time I had speaking and sitting with Eva Meijer, the Dutch Author, in Leeds to discuss their novel SEA NOW.  A government who seems slow to respond to a rapidly encroaching crisis. Marketing executives exploiting ways to make quick cash. A missing Prime Minister. Leavers and remainers conflicted about the right course of action. It all sounds like a playbook for our recent political crises. But when the dams start bursting in the Netherlands and the country rapidly begins to flood and be subsumed, what happens when people are faced with the unthinkable in this new waterworld.  These are the questions at the heart of Eva Meijer’s, SEA NOW, translated by Anne Thompson Melo, and published by Peirene Press. Other useful links to heighten your Rippling Pages experience: Get exclusive subscriber benefits from the Rippling Pages.  https://patreon.com/RipplingPagesPod?utm_medi Check out the Rippling Pages Bookshop and buy all the books featured on the Rippling Pages: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/ripplingpagespod Interested in hosting your own podcast? Follow this link and find out how: https://www.podbean.com/ripplingpages    Chapters 2.25 - what is the novel about 4.25 - a human and animal story 7:45 - how people respond to the crisis in the book 11.15 - is the novel represent human experience 13.45 - widescreen viewpoints 17.45 - why is the sea so powerful 21.20 - the Rippling Pages Bookshop 23.10 - why do characters stay? 25.40 - is there hope in the novel 27.15 - endings and new beginnings and grief  30.30 - objects of influence  36.40 - Patreon subscriber shoutout! Reference Points Don DeLillo