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Eleanor Shearer on RIVER SING ME HOME: A post-slavery West Indian novel celebrating motherhood and female resilience.

Eleanor Shearer on RIVER SING ME HOME: A post-slavery West Indian novel celebrating motherhood and female resilience.

FromKeen On


Eleanor Shearer on RIVER SING ME HOME: A post-slavery West Indian novel celebrating motherhood and female resilience.

FromKeen On

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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Feb 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to RIVER SING ME HOME author Eleanor Shearer about her hotly anticipated first novel which has been selected as the Good Morning America pick for February.

Eleanor Shearer is a mixed-race writer and the granddaughter of Windrush generation immigrants. She splits her time between London and Ramsgate on the English coast so that she never has to go too long without seeing the sea. For her Master’s degree in Politics at the University of Oxford, Eleanor studied the legacy of slavery and the case for reparations, and her fieldwork in St. Lucia and Barbados helped inspire her first novel, RIVER SING ME HOME

ABOUT ANDREW KEEN: Name as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.
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Released:
Feb 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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