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John Lanchester talks to Alex Clark

Look What You Made Me Do

Hay Festival 2026, 

 Blackly funny and razor-sharp, John Lanchester introduces his new novel about two very different women, brought together by a betrayal and a hit television show. In Look What You Made Me Do, Kate’s idyllic life takes a dark turn when she watches young screenwriter Phoebe’s new series, Cheating, and sees what she thinks are details about her life and intimacies that only she and her husband would know. In this story of resentment and entitlement, the two women are drawn towards a battle only one of them can win.

Lanchester discusses the inspiration behind the book, his career and more, with literary journalist Alex Clark. This is an unmissable event with a writer whose best-selling novel Capital was adapted into an International Emmy Award-winning television series.