As we mark Mental Health Awareness Week and its theme of loneliness, we speak with four writers who know the importance of talking about difficult things and why conversation is at the heart of better mental health. Marian Keyes and Candice Carty-Williams share the personal stories that fed into their fiction, whilst Dr Julie Smith brings her clinical expertise to a wider audience and broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake shows how a career based on dialogue has taught him what can help us all to have better conversations.
Colm Tóibín
Kaliane Bradley
Sarah Perry
Salman Rushdie
David Nicholls
Percival Everett
Zeinab Badawi
Marian Keyes
Chimene Suleyman
Stuart Turton
Dr. Charan Ranganath
Anna Jones
Gary Stevenson
Sophie Elmhirst
Sam Sedgman
Alex Michaelides
Chris Van Tulleken
Nina Stibbe
Ed Gamble
Judi Dench
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