Class and Fiction: Jessica Andrews and Adelle Stripe

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Two of the most exciting new novelists in Britain today join Dr Danny O'Connor for a discussion of class, fiction, music and more!

<p>Jessica Andrews’ debut novel Saltwater explores mother-daughter relationships and identity in relation to place, social class and the body. It won the Portico Prize 2020 and is published by Sceptre (UK) and FSG (US) and translated in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Greece. She co-runs and organises events with literary and arts magazine, The Grapevine and co-presents literary podcast, Tender Buttons. She teaches Literature and Creative Writing to adults, young people and children. She is currently working on her second novel.</p>

<p>Adelle Stripe’s debut novel, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile (Fleet), was a fictionalised biography based on the life and work of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. It was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and Portico Prize for Literature. The book uses fact and fiction alongside imagined letters and diary entries, creating a portrait of the writer and her struggles with alcoholism, the pressures of motherhood and London’s theatre establishment. It was adapted for the stage in 2019 to widespread critical acclaim. From 2008-2012, Stripe published three short collections of poetry with small press publisher Blackheath Books. The final edition in the trilogy, Dark Corners of the Land, was named Poetry Book of the Year by 3:AM Magazine.  Her poetry, memoir and essays have appeared in a range of anthologies. In 2019 she published Sweating Tears with Fat White Family on Rough Trade Books. It was one of the Irish Times’ Books of the Year. As a lecturer, she has taught at Manchester Writing School, Leeds Trinity University and York St John University. She is currently writing a music biography for White Rabbit Books and working on a second novel. She lives in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire.</p>

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