Claire Carroll and The Unreliable Nature Writer

"The smotheringly neutral voice"

Claire Carroll is here to talk about her new and debut collection of short stories THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER. A truly candid insight into the workings of craft and being a writer from one of the most exciting and upcoming fiction writers today.

THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER is published by Scratch Books - more here

Rippling Points

2.00 - Claire's dreams and reading.

4.55 - The different personal and impersonal voices in Claire's work

10:37 - Being a writer and knowing or not knowing answers

13:12 - Unreliable narrators and what they mean to Claire

18:00 - How and why Claire writes about animals.

24:30 - The challenge of having 'authority' on the climate crisis

28.40 - Giving the stories a sense of wonder

30:00 - Claire's book tour!

 

Reference Points

Franz Kafka
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Ben Pester
Saba Sams
Samantha Walton - The Nature Cure