QRR server moderators Elysia and Ella interview Lara Elena Donnelly about spotlight book Amberlough, her 1920s inspired spy thriller full of intrigue and glamour. Warnings for spoilers, themes around fascism and graphic descriptions of internal wounds with old-timey surgery.
Books mentioned:
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Bright Young People by D.J. Taylor
Declare by Tim Powers
Making Us Monsters by Sam J. Miller & Lara Elena Donnelly
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
A Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee