'I got obsessed with horses' — Geraldine Brooks on her novel Horse

The Book Show

English - June 20, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brookes says she "didn't grow up as a horse obsessed girl" but rather her interest in horses was a result of a midlife crisis which led her to the history of a famous American thoroughbred that was the inspiration for her latest novel, simply called Horse.

Also, John Purcell talks about his second official novel, The Lessons, and reveals his brief career writing erotica and Karen Manton explains the inspiration for her evocative novel, The Curlew's Eye, set in remote Northern Territory.