This week Cariad talks to internationally acclaimed writer, Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits, Paula, The Soul of a Woman). Isabel spoke about her daughter, Paula, who died when she was just twenty-nine and her mother, who died in 2018. As ever they talk grief, generosity + fabulous clothes. Isabels's new book,

Isabel Allende says her latest novel, Violeta, was inspired by her mother but also by Allende's own life. Also, readers who send fan mail and the writers who reply with Markus Zusak, Anita Heiss, John Marsden and Krissy Kneen, and disability in fiction with Joseph Elliott and Kit Kavanagh-Ryan.

Isabel Allende’s new novel, “Violeta,” opens in the midst of a pandemic, under quarantine conditions. Only it’s 1920 and the Spanish flu. Violeta has just been born; she spends her early life in the virus-induced social bubble that we’ve all come to know. Inspired by Allende’s own mother, Violeta is born into elite, bu

Adam talks with Chilean writer Isabel Allende about lockdown marriage stress, feminism, infidelity and growing old with wisdom.  Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for his work on this episode Podcast artwork by Helen Green RELATED LINKS COVIDAID - THE UK'S NEW NATIONAL COVID 19 CHARITY FIFTH SENSE - ADVICE AND SUPPORT F

Are you feeding your self doubt? Viv Groskop talks to writer Isabel Allende about how women can combat insecurity by celebrating each other. She talks of the value of feeling comfortable in your skin, knowing what you want to say and understanding that: "these people have come here to love you". Oh, and realising that

Isabel Allende has been a feminist her whole life. From a young age she rebelled against male authority, after seeing her mother Panchita abandoned by her husband and left to provide for three small children. While growing up in Chile in her grandparents’ house, Isabel realised early on that the women in her family, fr