Talking Scared

228 – Sophie White & An Island of Formless Dread


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Ready to hear a conversation about some devastatingly dark things?

 

Sophie White and I have got you covered!

 

In this expansive chat, we talk about her calculatingly distressing novel, Where I End – in which an isolated island community plays host to the worst, cruellest kind of loneliness. And that books is a springboard for others things, psychosis, weaponised empathy, real-life atrocity and the way that all that darkness can seep into a place forever.

 

But then we also have a good old chat about books we love, and we swear a lot… so there’s a bright side.

 

This is a key conversation for me. A pivotal episode.

 

Enjoy!

 

Other books mentioned:

 

  • Recipes For a Nervous Breakdown (2016), by Sophie White
  • Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows (2020), by Sophie White
  • Apt Pupil (1982), by Stephen King
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • The Girl Next Door (1989), by Jack Ketchum
  • Sharkheart: A Love Story (2023), by Emily Habeck
  • The Lamb (2025), by Lucy Rose
  • Tender is the Flesh (2017), by Augustina Bazterrica
  • Lunar Park (2005), by Bret Easton Ellis
  • Our Wives Under the Seas (2022), by Julia Armfield
  • Follow Me To Ground (2018), by Sue Rainsford

     

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