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Lucy Apps: 'Allow your characters to say and do things that feel uncomfortable to you as write'

In this interview Lucy Apps, author of the debut novel Gloria Don't Speak, shares her approach to writing complex relationships and the novels that have inspired her.

Lucy Apps: 'Allow your characters to say and do things that feel uncomfortable to you as write'

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