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Elif Shafak talks to Kirsty Lang

Fictions: There Are Rivers in the Sky

Hay Festival 2025, 

Hear one of our great contemporary storytellers discuss her new book and inspirations. Elif Shafak talks to broadcaster Kirsty Lang about There Are Rivers in the Sky, the story of three lives throughout history – in Victorian London, 2014 Turkey and 2018 London – connected by a single drop of water.

Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist whose books include The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Her work has been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize.