Listen "Lisa Jewell - Novelist"
Episode Synopsis
Best-selling thriller writer Lisa ("Then She Was Gone", "The Family Upstairs", "Watching You") shares clips that didn't make it into her books, and talks in fascinating detail about her unusually practical and no-nonsense writing technique.
Clips performed by: Beth Chalmers, Christopher Kent and Rachel Atkins.
Lisa Jewell is the Number 1 New York Times bestselling author of nineteen novels (shortly to be 20), including The Girls and The House We Grew Up In, as well as Invisible Girl and I Found You. Her first novel Ralph's Party, a book whose genre she describes as "flatmates and curry" was the highest selling debut novel of the year. She has written various other genres of fiction, and most recently she's topped the best-selling charts with her psychological thrillers.
So far her novels have sold over 5 million copies internationally, and her work has been translated into twenty-nine languages.
For more details about the writer, the offcuts and the actors performing them see the episode show notes: offcutsdrawer.com/lisa-jewell
Clips performed by: Beth Chalmers, Christopher Kent and Rachel Atkins.
Lisa Jewell is the Number 1 New York Times bestselling author of nineteen novels (shortly to be 20), including The Girls and The House We Grew Up In, as well as Invisible Girl and I Found You. Her first novel Ralph's Party, a book whose genre she describes as "flatmates and curry" was the highest selling debut novel of the year. She has written various other genres of fiction, and most recently she's topped the best-selling charts with her psychological thrillers.
So far her novels have sold over 5 million copies internationally, and her work has been translated into twenty-nine languages.
For more details about the writer, the offcuts and the actors performing them see the episode show notes: offcutsdrawer.com/lisa-jewell
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