The Hindu·4 min read·medium
Interview | Kit de Waal on playing within limitations in ‘The Best of Everything’
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Saurabh Sharma
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Author Kit de Waal discusses her novel 'The Best of Everything,' which follows a Caribbean auxiliary nurse in 1970s Birmingham navigating loss, motherhood, and social displacement. The interview explores her creative process, specifically how she crafted distinct character voices and examined themes of poverty, sisterhood, and the subjectivity of success.
Last year, author Kit de Waal, 65, was the jury chair of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. This year, she was on the longlist of the same prize with her novel The Best of Everything (published by Tinder Press).
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