Ready to hear a conversation about some devastatingly dark things?
Sophie White and I have got you covered!
In this expansive chat, we talk about her calculatingly distressing novel, Where I End – in which an isolated island community plays host to the worst, cruellest kind of loneliness. And that books is a springboard for others things, psychosis, weaponised empathy, real-life atrocity and the way that all that darkness can seep into a place forever.
But then we also have a good old chat about books we love, and we swear a lot… so there’s a bright side.
This is a key conversation for me. A pivotal episode.
Enjoy!
Other books mentioned:
Recipes For a Nervous Breakdown (2016), by Sophie White
Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows (2020), by Sophie White
Apt Pupil (1982), by Stephen King
The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Girl Next Door (1989), by Jack Ketchum
Sharkheart: A Love Story (2023), by Emily Habeck
The Lamb (2025), by Lucy Rose
Tender is the Flesh (2017), by Augustina Bazterrica
Lunar Park (2005), by Bret Easton Ellis
Our Wives Under the Seas (2022), by Julia Armfield
Follow Me To Ground (2018), by Sue Rainsford
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