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Podcast: Confessions of a Debut Novelist
Episode: Episode 2.43 Rajasree Variyar - The Daughters of Madurai
Description: In this episode of Confessions of a Debut Novelist, I’m talking to Rajasree Variyar about her contemporary novel The Daughters of Madurai. We discuss how she was inspired by a shocking news story about infanticide which she remembered from her childhood, why her intense research trip to India made her complex characters more authentic, and finding a way to give agency to historically and culturally oppressed female characters. Confessions of a Debut Novelist Bookshop*Buy The Daughters of Madurai: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10990/9781398707269Follow Rajasree: @Raji_WarriorFol...