OurShelves with special guest Monica Ali

OurShelves celebrates the end of Season 4 with the beloved Monica Ali, a fellow of Royal Society of Literature, Patron of the Hopscotch Women’s Centre, and bestselling author of&nbsp;<em>Brick Lane</em>&nbsp;and the upcoming<a href="https://store.virago.co.uk/products/love-marriage-standard-bound-proof?_pos=1&amp;_sid=3a078fb2d&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;<em>Love Marriage</em></a>, her wonderful, complex and optimistic book about the entangled lives of two very different families – which kept Lucy Scholes up late at night turning the pages. She asks Monica how she gestated this book for ten years, how she made her less likeable characters empathic and how listening to Esther Perel’s sex and relationship therapy inspired her to change their narratives.<br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>