The Wonder House

Interviews

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When the journalist Justine Hardy was sent to Kashmir in the early 1990s, she didn't imagine that some 15 years later the conflict would be rumbling on and that she would even set her first novel there. 

Justine  joins Martha to talk about making a home with a Muslim family in a place that is considered a crucible of Islamic extremism and how the experience inspired her romantic book The Wonder House. Listen to the interview...
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour interview with Justine on The Wonder House
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Journalist, documentary filmmaker on her debut novel, The Wonder House, set in troubled Kashmir

Born in England, trained as a journalist in Australia, a globe-trotting travel writer, why set your novel in Kashmir?
I lived in India as a child and have been here for 15 years now. As a journalist covering Kashmir, there were so many stories I wasn't allowed to tell. I thought of putting them into a novel. Read Full Interview..
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