Heres a snippet from the official summary:
Trudy has betrayed her husband, John.
Shes still in the marital home a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse but Johns not here.
But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudys womb.
Credit: Joost van den Broek
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:What inspiredNutshell?
What else can you tell us about the plot and the characters?
My unborn narrator has privileged access to pillow talk and to the careful plotting of a murder.
What can he do about it?
His options are necessarily constrained.
Might he take revenge?
As for characters, his mother is clearly a great beauty, praised in verse by a well-known poet.
Her lover is both a dull fool and highly sexually charged a fatal combination.
Do youlikethese characters or do they terrify you a bit?
I like all my characters not as people but as creations.
That is, I like them if they turn out to be well-drawn and convince me.
What are you most excited for your readers to see?
What its like to be cramped, upside down inside another person, listening to her loudly squelching heart.
What are you reading right now?
Ive just read Han KangsThe Vegetarian a short novel of sexuality and madness that deserves its great success.
Im also re-readingThe English and Their Historyby Robert Tombs a grand narrative account of the English over thirteen centuries.
