Welcome back Bookends to Season 2 of our Debut Spotlight series where we shine the light on the freshest new authors and their work, we recorded this back at the start of April and are thrilled to bring you this conversation with the incredible best-selling debut author of 'Collected Works', Lydia Sandgren.

Aswell as deep diving into this wonderful tome of a novel, we chat about the characters that feel like friends, parenting and gender disparities, how being a psychologist informs her writing and so much more, we hope you enjoy this as much as we did!

To buy Collected Works: A Novel - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/collected-works-a-novel-lydia-sandgren/7433747?ean=9781782277989

To follow Lydia - https://www.instagram.com/lydiasandgren/?hl=en-gb

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Books mentioned during episode:
My Struggle (series of six autobiographical novels) by Karl Ove Knausgård
Diaries 1918-1939 by Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann