Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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'My wife reads fiction'

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By the River Thames with Virginia Woolf.

It happens quite often. At literary festivals, cultural events or private gatherings with friends—old and new—almost always these days someone feels the need to come and tell me something along these lines:

‘You are a writer, but can I be perfectly honest with you?’

‘Sure,’ I say, even as an alarm bell goes off ins…

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