Hannah Webb: 'I always seem to end up writing at the extremes'
We opened this Autumn season with Daisy Johnson and followed up with Judith Vanistendael and Scott Jacobs. We'll be sitting down with Esther Karin Mngodo over the next week or so, but this episode is devoted to Hannah Webb and her short story Titanic.
While Jacobs told us Be Careful Who Your Friends Are was drawn from his own life, Webb insists that her story is definitely not autobiographical.
"I have been on one of those holidays," she says, "but it didn't end up like that. There was much less cruelty."
Under the surface, she explains, Titanic is driven by technology.
"Teenagers have been…
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