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Podcast: The Shift with Sam Baker
Episode: Sarah Perry on "becoming a woman who didn't have children"
Description: My guest today is the award-winning novelist Sarah Perry.
Sarah is the internationally bestselling author of four novels, but the one you will almost definitely heard of (and may well have watched) is The Essex Serpent. Published in 2016, it sold over half a million copies, and won both British Book of the Year and Waterstones book of the year before being made into an apple tv+ series starring Clare Danes and Tom Hiddleston (Sarah was an extra!). Sarah has also been nominated for the booker prize, the women’s prize for fiction and the costa novel award, am...