Welcome back bookends to another book club episode! This month's book club pick is Common Decency- the second novel by the immensely talented author and poet Susannah Dickey who we were thrilled to spend an hour chatting to! We recorded via zoom with some occasional internet issues so we apologise for any audio that may have been affected.
Trigger Warning: conversations on grief.
Aswell as a deep dive into the mind of Susannah and the worlds of her books we chatted about unhinged novels, chaotic females, the mother/daughter relationship, grief, affairs and killing fish... IYKYK.

To stay up to date with Susannah and what she's up to next you can follow her here: https://twitter.com/susannahdickey?lang=en

To buy 'Common Decency': https://uk.bookshop.org/books/common-decency-a-dark-intimate-novel-of-love-grief-and-obsession/9780857526885
To buy 'Tennis Lessons': https://uk.bookshop.org/books/tennis-lessons/9781784165055

Books & Authors mentioned:
The wings of the dove by Henry James
Long Live The Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth
NW by Zadie Smith
How to be both by Ali Smith
Rachel Cusk
Lorrie Moore
Mieko Kawakami
Sayaka Murata

Cultural Recs from Susannah:
Love & Anarchy - Netflix
Hold me closer by Britney Spears and Elton John -https://open.spotify.com/track/72yP0DUlWPyH8P7IoxskwN?autoplay=true

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