Women’s Prize-longlisted Luan Goldie, author of the “remarkable” (Bonnie Garmus) new novel These Streets, has been interviewed for The Bestseller Experiment podcast.

In the interview, which you can listen to here (from 00:13:05), Luan talks to Mark Stay about her new book, writing dialogue before anything else, choosing the point-of-view of her characters, writing cover letters and synopses, teaching during the pandemic and much, much more.

Newham has an Olympic stadium, its own airport, and a direct train to Paris. But the borough also has one of the highest rates of homelessness in England.

Jessica lives in the borough with her two teenage children, Hazel and Jacob, but a catastrophic string of bad luck costs her her job and home within a few days.

But in the darkness there is hope; her estranged brother returns and she meets the man of her dreams. Can she turn things around and save her family?

These Streets is out now. Grab your copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

You can follow Luan on Twitter @LuanGoldie.