Helen Dunmore

Prize winning author Helen Dunmore discusses with author Peggy Riley her life in writing and the themes of forbidden love and intimate betrayal in her new novel, Exposure.

Set in November 1960 at the height of the cold war it concerns a man accused of passing secrets to the Soviets.

Helen Dunmore is one of the UK’s most acclaimed storytellers, equally well known for her fiction, poetry and writing for children. Her previous novels include the Orange Prize winning A Spell Of Winter, Whitbread Novel Award short listed The Siege and the Man Booker longlisted The Betrayal.