Writers Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie meet Jennie Godfrey, debut novelist and author of The List of Suspicious things.

Jennie discusses how she wrote her novel, which has garnered a huge amount of buzz in the British publishing industry and beyond, and which has themes that draw on Jennie’s own childhood experiences growing up in Yorkshire during the strange and troubling time when the Yorkshire Ripper was at large. Alice and Charlotte share their own journeys to publication - from the rocky to the dreamlike - as well as speaking to Jennie about writing inspiration, crime fiction, what stops her from writing and what keeps her going.

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