"The smotheringly neutral voice"
Claire Carroll is here to talk about her new and debut collection of short stories THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER. A truly candid insight into the workings of craft and being a writer from one of the most exciting and upcoming fiction writers today.
THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER is published by Scratch Books - more here
Rippling Points
2.00 - Claire's dreams and reading.
4.55 - The different personal and impersonal voices in Claire's work
10:37 - Being a writer and knowing or not knowing answers
13:12 - Unreliable narrators and what they mean to Claire
18:00 - How and why Claire writes about animals.
24:30 - The challenge of having 'authority' on the climate crisis
28.40 - Giving the stories a sense of wonder
30:00 - Claire's book tour!
Reference Points
Franz Kafka
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Ben Pester
Saba Sams
Samantha Walton - The Nature Cure
