Feb 21, 2019
Lucy Foley is the author of four novels, including most recently
The Hunting Party. It’s a creepy, insightful thriller about a group
of university friends who, for their annual New Year’s Eve trip,
have chosen a remote location in the Scottish Highlands. And a few
days into their trip, one of them is found dead. Who died; who
killed them; and why: that’s what we read on to find out. Lucy
spoke to the Brit Lit Podcast about her pivot away from historical
fiction to thrillers, why she structured The Hunting Party as she
did, her favourite fiction about groups of friends and what it is
that makes groups of longtime friends such fertile territory for
fiction, and more.
Books Mentioned on the Podcast:
The Secret History , by Donna Tartt
The Shooting Party , by Isabel Colegate
Big Little Lies , by Liane Moriarty
The Lady Vanishes , by Ethel Lina White
The Dry , by Jane Harper
Stone Mothers , by Erik Kelly
He Said/She Said , by Erin Kelly
Blood Orange , by Harriet Tyce
It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism,
Sexuality and Race , by Mariam Kham
Stubborn Archivist , by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Late in the Day , by Tessa Hadley
Unscripted, by Claire Handscombe
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get a few pence per sale at no extra cost to you if you click them
and buy from there, which will help me make this podcast viable
long-term. But better than Amazon, who are, let’s be honest, not
the greatest, is Blackwells or Waterstones, or, even better, your
local independent bookshop. If you live in the US or elsewhere
further afield, you can find UK books at Book Depository (also
owned by Amazon) at a good price and with no postage cost, or
sometimes at Wordery.com, or you can buy them from Amazon US, or,
even better, an independent bookshop.)
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