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Bookclub: Katherine Heiny: Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny: Standard Deviation

BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Katherine Heiny: Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny answers readers' questions about her novel Standard Deviation.

Katherine Heiny answers readers' questions about her funny, compassionate novel Standard Deviation.

Katherine Heiny answers readers questions about Standard Deviation, her hilarious novel about marriage, parenting and the road not travelled.  Audra is married to Graham, who is divorced from Elspeth.   While Audra is sociable, loving, outspoken, tactless, kind and funny, Elspeth is contained, reserved, controlled and reticent.  Despite loving Audra, Graham begins to wonder if his life should have taken a different path.   
Katherine Heiny reveals the real-life moments that inspired the book, her love of the funny side of life and why she can never pass up on writing a good joke.  


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