Isabel Allende writes about her mother, Markus Zusak gets your fanmail

The Book Show

English - February 27, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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Isabel Allende says her latest novel, Violeta, was inspired by her mother but also by Allende's own life. Also, readers who send fan mail and the writers who reply with Markus Zusak, Anita Heiss, John Marsden and Krissy Kneen, and disability in fiction with Joseph Elliott and Kit Kavanagh-Ryan.