Rebecca Gowers, When to Walk
In this podcast interview, I’m talking with British author, Rebecca Gowers, about her first
novel When to Walk.
The novel’s heroine, Ramble, a young woman with advanced arthritis and severe pelvic displacement, is unceremoniously dumped by her husband of three years. The husband (a musician who writes background music for film) takes off, leaving Ramble alone with her job: She writes travel copy for exotic places she never visits. She has the odd get together with Johnson – her best friend – a screamingly funny gay man, and with Mrs. Shaw, the beautiful gangster’s moll who lives downstairs.
This is just a sampling of the superb, hyper-real landscape Gowers has created. I spoke with Rebecca Gowers on the phone from her home in England.
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