Two writers discuss grief and writing about grief with the Monocle Radio books editor Georgina Godwin.
Peter Godwin’s Exit Wounds considers the life of émigrés, exiles and refugees, while telling the story of his mother’s death, his family’s secrets and the many meanings of home. Godwin is an award-winning foreign correspondent, author, documentary-maker and screenwriter.
Sigrid Rausing discusses finishing the memoir of her friend, the celebrated Swedish writer Johanna Ekström. When Ekström found out that she was dying from an eye melanoma she asked Rausing to finish her last book. And the Walls Became the World All Around showcases Ekström’s vivid imagination, writerly precision and psychological insight, interwoven with Rausing’s spare and sober reflections. Rausing is publisher of Granta magazine and Granta Books.
