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Describe your latest book.
The Reservoir Tapes is a collection of short stories which are all set in a village in Derbyshire, England, during the weeks and months leading up to the disappearance of a teenage visitor to the area. The first story is an interview with the girl’s mother in which only the voice of the interviewer is heard; the subsequent stories each take a single character and build a story from what they may have told this same interviewer. The stories were originally written for the radio, and so are more voice-driven than my previous work, and rely more than I’m used to on narrative hooks and suspense: there are guns left out on tables, and chases through the woods, and dying llamas...