In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I discuss Food and Passion with Sophie Haydock, author of The Flames, a novel about the four muses who posed for the artist Egon Schiele in Vienna more than 100 years ago. Sophie and I talk about the links between food, passion and art, the passion that runs through the women in her novel, and her passion for writing. She also talks about her time working with the late Sunday Times food critic AA Gill, and shares an exclusive extract from one of the articles he dictated to her, about mushrooms.

• Follow Sophie on Instagram @_sophiehaydock_.
• Follow Egon's Schiele's Women on Instagram @egonschieleswomen.
• Follow Sophie on Twitter @SophieHaydock.
• Buy The Flames in paperback.
• Visit Sophie's website.
• Listen to Sophie on Confessions of a Debut Novelist.

About Sophie Haydock: Sophie is an award-winning journalist who worked for The Sunday Times and has interviewed authors from Bernardine Evaristo to Sally Rooney, as well as being a judge for various literary competitions. The Flames is her debut novel.

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

• Buy Single Bald Female.
• Visit Laura's website.
• Read Laura's Substack newsletter, Doughnuts for Breakfast.
• Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
• Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.

Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.

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