Episode #37
37. What Books Know: Angela O'Keeffe
Aug 13, 202642 minS0
<p>In conversation with Amy Sambrooke, Angela O’Keeffe discusses a book that asks an unusual and beguiling question: what if a book could think, feel and observe the world around it?</p><p>Partly narrated by a sentient novel, Phantom Days follows a book as it moves between readers, witnessing intimate lives and uncovering secrets that its human characters cannot see. Along the way, the novel explores motherhood, memory, longing, truth and the strange relationship between writers, readers and the stories that connect them.</p><p>O’Keeffe reflects on the novel’s origins, the challenge of writing from a book...
