Episode 4.33 Kerry Downes - That Time Everything Was On Fire

20 Nov 2025 • 41 min • EN
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In this episode of Confessions of a Debut Novelist, I’m talking to Kerry Downes about his contemporary novel That Time Everything Was On Fire. In this episode we discuss why she wrote to feel seen and control the narrative when she was going through IVF, how to make both characters in a dual narrative equally important and to navigate restructuring a novel when you're working with a timeline constraint. Confessions of a Debut Novelist Bookshop* Buy That Time Everything Was On Fire: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10990/9780008665746 Follow Kerry: @kerrydownes Follow Chloe on Twitter: @clotimms Buy Chloe's debut novel The Seawomen: https://linktr.ee/chloetimms chloetimms.co.uk  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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