Pints with Jack, Season 4, Episode 83.

After Hours with Catherine Langrish.

Welcome, everyone.

Pints with Jack is your weekly CS-Lews podcast, where Matt, Andrew and I break down and discuss

the works of CS Lewis.

This season, we've eavesdropped on the screw-tip letters

and listened to his toast. And we then began Narnia Month by reading the silver chair,

and we're spending the rest of this month interviewing different guests on different Narnia-related

subjects. And today, we're joined by Catherine Langeish.

Catherine Langeish is a British author of fantasy for children and young adults.

She was brought up in Yorkshire and Herefordshire.

Her grandmother, Leonora Thornbur, was a Yorkshire novelist and playwright in the 1930s.

Catherine also wanted to be a writer from a young age, and to that end she gained a first-class

honours in English from the University of London.

The University also awarded her the Sir Charles Harris Prize for the best results achieved. She went on to study medieval

literature at University College and King's College London. She worked for six years in the information

office at Lloyd's Register London before moving first to France and then to United States,

where she became involved in oral storytelling to school

children. Upon returning to England in 1999, she began writing the children's fantasy novel

Troll Fell, which was published by Harper Collins to critical acclaim. She blogs at seven

miles of steel thistles, try and say that three times quickly, and is married with two daughters and currently lives in Oxfordshire.

And today she's here to talk to us about her book, which was released in April,

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