Novelist and journalist John Lanchester joins Tom to discuss his new novel Look What You Made Me Do, a darkly comic story about marriage, resentment, and the unsettling power of storytelling. When a North London woman starts noticing the intimate details of her own marriage appearing in the year’s biggest TV drama, she begins to wonder who has betrayed her and who really owns a shared life.

In this episode, John talks about the origins of the novel’s brilliantly uncomfortable premise, writing flawed characters, the advantages of being married to a fellow novelist and gives advice for aspiring writers.

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