Season 8: Episode 134
The day that Rowena Murray was born, two-hundred-and-fifty starlings dropped dead out of the sky. Or so her mother says. Ever since, she has been marked by Death. First came the visions; then her boyfriend died suddenly. Now Death has taken her father, too.
Salvation, Rowena is told, lies to the North: in Culcrith, where her grandmother can save her from the curse...
We meet author Nadia Attia who discusses her debut novel 'Verge' and the folklore behind its story.
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Read the book review for Verge on our Book Reviews pages
The day that Rowena Murray was born, two-hundred-and-fifty starlings dropped dead out of the sky. Or so her mother says. Ever since, she has been marked by Death. First came the visions; then her boyfriend died suddenly. Now Death has taken her father, too.
Salvation, Rowena is told, lies to the North: in Culcrith, where her grandmother can save her from the curse...
We meet author Nadia Attia who discusses her debut novel 'Verge' and the folklore behind its story.
To support the Folklore Podcast on Patreon for as little as £1 a month and help us to keep producing free content, please visit www.patreon.com/thefolklorepodcast
Read the book review for Verge on our Book Reviews pages
EPISODE GUEST
NADIA ATTIA
As someone from a working-class mixed-heritage background (Egyptian-German) I’m passionate about stories that explore ‘otherness’ and characters who take the path less trodden. I aspire to recreate the magic and escapism of fairy tales, and have been influenced not only by writers such as Le Guin, Gaiman, Tolkien, Atwood, Yeats, Oswald and Rossetti but also by music and countless movies and TV shows.
I’m a BFI NETWORK Talent Executive, a published journalist and an ex-filmmaker. In 2019 I won the FAB (Faber) prize for fiction, was selected for the London Writers Awards and won a free place at a writing retreat in the house that inspired Wuthering Heights (it was haunted). A graduate of the Curtis Brown novel-writing course, I’ve been published in Spread the Word’s City of Stories anthology, Star Songs and Luna Station Quarterly, and continue to build a gothic short story collection and work on my next novel.
To find all of Nadia's spaces online, please click here to visit her Link Tree.
As someone from a working-class mixed-heritage background (Egyptian-German) I’m passionate about stories that explore ‘otherness’ and characters who take the path less trodden. I aspire to recreate the magic and escapism of fairy tales, and have been influenced not only by writers such as Le Guin, Gaiman, Tolkien, Atwood, Yeats, Oswald and Rossetti but also by music and countless movies and TV shows.
I’m a BFI NETWORK Talent Executive, a published journalist and an ex-filmmaker. In 2019 I won the FAB (Faber) prize for fiction, was selected for the London Writers Awards and won a free place at a writing retreat in the house that inspired Wuthering Heights (it was haunted). A graduate of the Curtis Brown novel-writing course, I’ve been published in Spread the Word’s City of Stories anthology, Star Songs and Luna Station Quarterly, and continue to build a gothic short story collection and work on my next novel.
To find all of Nadia's spaces online, please click here to visit her Link Tree.