Claire Carroll and The Unreliable Nature Writer

"The smotheringly neutral voice"



Claire Carroll is here to talk about her new and debut collection of short stories THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER. A truly candid insight into the workings of craft and being a writer from one of the most exciting and upcoming fiction writers today.



THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER is published by Scratch Books - more here

Rippling Points



2.00 - Claire's dreams and reading.



4.55 - The different personal and impersonal voices in Claire's work



10:37 - Being a writer and knowing or not knowing answers



13:12 - Unreliable narrators and what they mean to Claire



18:00 - How and why Claire writes about animals.



24:30 - The challenge of having 'authority' on the climate crisis



28.40 - Giving the stories a sense of wonder



30:00 - Claire's book tour!

Reference Points

Franz Kafka

Cormac McCarthy - The Road

Ben Pester

Saba Sams

Samantha Walton - The Nature Cure