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Roisin Dunnett on Time Travel, Protest, and Littering

Roisin Dunnett on Time Travel, Protest, and Littering

Update: 2025-06-12
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"It is also difficult to imbue the people and the movements of the past with the complexities we offer ourselves." 




If you were to meet a time traveller from the future, what would you ask them? This is the question Roisin Dunnett asks in her novel, A LINE YOU HAVE TRACED (Magpie Books/Oneworld Publications). Spanning over three centuries, three women are connected by forces they, at first, don’t understand. From post-WWI Britain, to East End London’s modern queer scene, to a portentous dystopian future, Roisin’s novel is coded with messages between the past, present and future. It's published by Magpie Books, an imprint of Oneworld.  


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Rippling Points


2.01 - the past, present and future.

3.55 - is there a past event that influenced this novel?

6.45 - Narratives of women

10.16 - which character did Roisin write first?

11.33 - Why do characters feel out of time

13.02 - Visions and dreams in Roisin's novel

19.24 - what would we do if we could actually see the future?

24.30 - The marshes in Roisin's novel. 

29.24 - Does your dad pick up litter?

30.59 - Roisin's writing journey  


 


Reference Points

Charles Dickens

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Roisin Dunnett on Time Travel, Protest, and Littering

Roisin Dunnett on Time Travel, Protest, and Littering

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