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Show Notes
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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