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Laura Hird

Laura Hird

Laura Hird speaks with Geoff Hattersley about bleak stories, writing in multiple voices and a literary afterlife. Laura Hird speaks with Geoff Hattersley about her beginnings as a writer of bleak and gritty short stories, the real reason her first novel was written in four different voices, and how she gave her mother a literary afterlife in ‘Dear Laura’.


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