Guest: Diana Evans
Tonight we’ll be discussing the challenges and complexities of revisiting beloved characters, interweaving multiple strands of story and working on a large canvas with Diana Evans, the award-winning, bestselling author of A House for Alice, Ordinary People, The Wonder and 26a. A book of the year in the New Yorker, Ordinary People received the South Bank Sky Arts Award, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. A House for Alice is the critically acclaimed follow-up. Set in the aftermath of the Grenfell tragedy, it reignites the cast of Ordinary People to create an intergenerational portrait of middle-class black Britain.