Guadalupe Nettel on human nature in fiction

Update: 2025-07-27

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Georgina Godwin speaks to Guadalupe Nettel about her award-winning writing, life between Mexico and France, partial blindness and how human and animal behaviour inspires the themes in her latest work, ‘The Accidentals’.

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