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Jenni Fagan

Scottish novelist and poet Jenni Fagan tells presenter James Crawford about her new novel, The Delusions, and its three key literary influences.

Scottish novelist and poet Jenni Fagan tells presenter James Crawford about her new novel, The Delusions, in which she takes readers to the afterlife - or, at least, to its entry portal. It is a place where the newly dead are required to queue up and account for the truth of their lives - and extract all their delusions - if they are to have any chance of passing into eternity.

Jenni鈥檚 three chosen influences are Nina Cassian鈥檚 poem Temptation (1966), Mary Shelley鈥檚 Frankenstein (1818), and Jeanette Winterson鈥檚 Weight (2005).

Producer: Rachael O'Neill
Editor: Gillian Wheelan
This was a 麻豆社 Audio Scotland production.

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