Annabel Pitcher's follow-up to her much-acclaimed first novel My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece featured a teenage girl who falls in love with two brothers. When one of them dies she is so riven with guilt she starts writing to a murderer who awaiting execution on America's death row to unburden herself of what she sees as her crime.
In this podcast Annabel reads from the start of Ketchup Clouds and talks about how she came to write such an unusual books.
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