Karen Joy Fowler: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler is best known for her international bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club, a sublime comic novel of contemporary manners that Alice Sebold loved so much, she wanted to eat it (strange but true).
Her Booker-longlisted latest novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, is a daringly original exploration of family and loss, self and coming-of-age. It’s told through the prism of an unlikely psychology experiment (based on a famous real life one) - a girl raised, for a time, alongside an ape, by her researcher parents.
Meet this wise, warm and much-loved writer - and let her be your guide through the invented worlds of her novels, and the ideas within them. In conversation with Hilary Harper.
Presented in partnership with Brisbane Writers Festival.

[@kikivolauvent1]

I'm only now reading this fascinating book - I had no idea what it was about because (like the presenter) I didn't like those many pages of praise and I wondered if I only had bought that book (years ago!!!!) because of its title.... What a precious and wonderful talk this is, intelligent questions, wonderful answers.

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