About
Angharad Hampshire is a lecturer in creative writing at York St John University. Previously she worked as a producer for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service in London, an honorary lecturer in journalism at the University of Hong Kong and a regular contributor to the South China Morning Post.
She joins us for her debut novel, The Mare, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2025.
Based on a true story, The Mare offers a gripping portrait of the descent of ordinary people into inhumanity. And it asks what happens after that nadir. It considers the impossible task of defining justice in the face of a crime which involved everyone, and weighs the moral necessity of reckoning with the truth against the overwhelming urge to look away. Absolutely unflinching and charged with urgent contemporary relevance, The Mare examines how we attempt to justify the unjustifiable - and forgive the unforgivable.
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