Hey Bookends! Apologies for the lack of episode last week, it's been a hectic month so we had a week off but are back with the latest instalment in our Debut Spotlight series! For this episode we chatted to the brilliant Ursula Villarreal-Moura, author of debut novel Like Happiness and the flash fiction collection Math for the self-crippling.

We chat about how she kept the faith in her novel after it went out on submission 3 times before being picked up, writing power dynamics in relationships, why she rereads books and so much more. As Ursula is a professor aswell as a writer, her recommendations were truly top tier in this! 

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Books & Authors mentioned in this episode: 
Confessions by Kanae Minato
When The Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen
What Remains at the End by Alexandra Ford
Roberto Bolaño
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
Robinson by Muriel Spark
Sigrid Nunez
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H
There There by Tommy Orange
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan

Thanks so much for listening, until next time- happy reading! Han & Lyd x