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Tessa Hadley

Kitty Aldridge

Esther Freud

Camilla Way

Open Book: Tessa Hadley, Female friendships, The Russian Revolution

22/01/2017

Tessa Hadley, Female friendships, The Russian Revolution

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Tessa Hadley, Female friendships, The Russian Revolution

Award-winning author Tessa Hadley talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new short stories.

Tessa Hadley's new stories; Kitty Aldridge and Esther Freud's creative partnership; how writers explore the bonds between women; and the literature of the Russian Revolution.

Award winning author Tessa Hadley talks to Mariella Frostrup. As comfortable with the scope of the novel as she is with the 'bite' of the short story, Hadley discusses her latest collected tales, Bad Dreams, which suggests an entirely new genre: the domestic thriller. 

Continuing our occasional series about writers working together, Mariella is joined by novelists Kitty Aldridge and Esther Freud who, despite being friends since their late teens, still manage to have an honest and unsparing writing relationship. 

Also on the programme, we discuss what the release of a new anthology of writings from 1917 can teach us about the impact of the Russian Revolution on writers. And novelist Camilla Way explores why the bonds between women - and how they can break - has long fascinated writers.

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