The Booker Prize is awarded each year to the best work of sustained fiction in the English language.   In other words, it doesn’t get any more prestigious than the Booker.  And we are honored this week to have Samantha Harvey who wrote the 2024 Booker winner entitled “Orbital”.   When you read her beautiful prose, you’ll know why she won.  And when you listen to her tell us how and why she wrote “Orbital”, you’ll be as impressed with Samantha Harvey as we are.

Books mentioned in this week's episode:

“Orbital” by Samantha Harvey

“The Shapeless Unease” by Samantha Harvey

“Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf

“The Western Wind” by Samantha Harvey 

“The Wilderness” by Samantha Harvey

“Dear Thief” by Samantha Harvey

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