Samantha Harvey, THE SHAPELESS UNEASE

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Samantha Harvey is an acclaimed novelist whose most recent book, a genre-bending memoir called The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping, just came out to rave reviews. For anyone who has ever experienced a sleepless night (perhaps all of us these days), this book mirrors the emotions that surface in the dead of night. The form followed the content as Samantha navigated her issues, delving into losses and traumas from her past. We talked about her thoughts about writing, not sleeping, and the writing process itself: that it's like dreaming, and also an expression of love that requires you to open your heart.

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1:23.0	Samantha Harvey is the author of four novels, The Wilderness, All Is Song, Dear Thief, and the Western Wind,
1:29.9	and she has written a memoir, which we'll talk about today, called The Shapeless Uneas.
1:33.7	Her novels have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award,
1:38.3	the Walter Scott Prize, and the James Tate Black Prize, and long-listed for the Man Booker
1:42.7	Prize, the Bailies Prize, the Gerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, and the HWA Gold Crown Award.
1:47.8	The Wilderness was the winner of the AMI Literature Award and the Betty Trask Prize and
1:51.9	the Western Wind won the 2019 Staunch Book Prize.
1:55.9	She lives in Bath in the UK and is a reader in creative writing at Bath Spa University. Welcome, Sam.
2:02.7	Thanks so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. Thank you for having me here.
2:07.5	I'm very honored. And you're in the UK now, is that right? Yeah, I'm just outside Bath in the
2:14.9	southwest of the UK. Interesting.
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