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Podcast: Words and Nerds: Authors, books and literature.
Episode: QWS S4E6 Ange Crawford and Troy Hunter - How To Be Normal
Description: ANGE CRAWFORD
🎙️ New QWS Podcast Episode! 🌈✨ Season 4 Continues!
In QWS S4E6, Troy Hunter (he/him) has a yarn with Ange Crawford (she/her) about her award-winning debut YA novel How To Be Normal, out now with Walker Books.
Ange discusses some of the key elements of the novel, including friendships, family and queer love. But How To Be Normal also tackles darker themes like coercive control and anxiety. She also opens up about how her own autism influences and impacts her writing.
There’s a great chat about how music influences her work and her life, and how our identities a...