Our latest book club title is Academy Street by Mary Costello, published by Canongate.
In this edition of the Book Club podcast the author meets two readers who haven't read her work before and who get to discuss the book in detail with her and find out where her characters and settigns come from.
They were very interested to discover just how much of it came from her own family history and how much sprang from her imagination.
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This edition of the show is presented by Gary Quinn. Sound by JJ Vernon