Naomi Wood: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Novelist and short story writer Naomi Wood joins us to talk about her latest short story collection, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things and her story Comorbidities, which is included in the collection and won the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award. 

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