The Claustrophobic Verb
Ian McMillan discusses writing and claustrophobia with guests Holly Pester, Catherine Coldstream, Hannah Sullivan and Karen Featherstone.
Ian McMillan is leaning into unease this week as he discusses writing and Claustrophobia. His guests are Holly Pester, whose new novel 'The Lodgers' examines the psychological disturbances of precarious housing situations; we meet a woman renting a flat that is more like a sandwich packet than a house, and another who must make her own life extremely small as she lodges with a family.
Catherine Coldsteam’s new memoir is ‘Cloistered’, a book about the twelve years she spent in a Carmelite monastery where she lived the life of a silent contemplative nun.
Hannah Sullivan won the T.S. Eliot award for her collection ‘Three Poems’. Her latest book ‘Was it For This’ considers a life shrunk small by new motherhood.
The last in our series of Verb Dramas is Ghost In The Machine by Karen Featherstone
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Jessica Treen
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