Sarah Hall, BURNTCOAT: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Novelist Sarah Hall joins Zibby to discuss her not-quite-pandemic book, Burntcoat, which was just nominated for this year's National Book Critics Circle Awards. Sarah also shares how her role as a single mother inspired elements of this novel, the ways in which writing has allowed her to truly express herself throughout her life, and what notions of identity and relationships she sought to analyze. Sarah also wants readers to know that despite almost being about the pandemic, this book is actually very funny.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.1	If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids.
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0:17.9	All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at With Zibby and Tracy. My other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium. And of course, my new publishing company called Zivvy Books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. Hi. Hi.
0:37.8	Hello.
0:38.4	Enjoy the show.
0:41.0	Sarah Hall is the author of Burntcoat, a novel.
0:44.3	Sarah was born in 1974 in Cumbria, England, and received a master's and letters in
0:48.7	creative writing from Scotland's St. Andrews University and has published four novels.
0:53.8	Haweswater won the Commonwealth Writers Prize as the overall winner and best first novel,
0:58.9	and a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award.
1:01.5	The Electric Michelangelo was shortlisted for the Ban Booker Prize,
1:04.8	the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Eurasia Regent, and the pre-feminine Etchanger
1:08.5	and was long listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
1:12.1	Daughters of the North won the 2006-07 John Llewellyn-Reece Prize and the James Tripte Jr. Award
1:18.8	and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction.
1:22.5	How to Paint a Dead Man was long listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the Portico Prize for Fiction.
1:27.9	In 2013, Sarah was named one of Granta's best young British novelists, a prize awarded every 10 years.
1:33.8	And she won the BBC National Short Story Award and the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
1:41.3	Welcome, Sarah. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books
1:44.7	to discuss Burnt Coat. Thank you for having me. Would you mind telling listeners a little bit
1:50.8	about what your book is about? Yeah, so it was a response to the pandemic, but it is not a pandemic
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