Show Notes
Alli Parker is the author of At the Foot of the Cherry Tree and Tania Blanchard is the author of six novels, The Girl from Munich, Suitcase of Dreams, Letters from Berlin, Daughter of Calabria/Echoes of War, A Woman of Courage, and An Undeniable Voice. Each of these books are inspired by family histories and play with the relationship between history and fiction. Bethany speaks to Alli and Tania in conversation about their approaches to novelising family stories, including the challenge of telling personal stories to a public audience.
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