The Stories We Inhabit

The worlds we inhabit are shaped as much by imagination as by memory, by the stories we inherit as by those we choose to tell. Charlotte Wood and Emily St. John Mandel are 2 distinctive literary voices whose fiction moves effortlessly between the intimate and the expansive, the ordinary and the extraordinary. Speaking with writer Ailsa Piper, they reflect on craft, character and the quiet architecture of storytelling, and explore how novels create spaces where uncertainty, possibility and the complexities of being human come vividly to life.