Summary: Deborah Levy (writer)in conversation with Katie Lewis (psychotherapist)In this session Deborah Levy will read from and talk about her work and discuss its relation to the themes of mourning and melancholia. Deborah Levy is a playwright, novelist, and poet. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company and she is the author of novels including Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, Billy and Girl, and the Booker-shortlisted Swimming Home. Her latest novel is Hot Milk, about the fraught relationship between a young woman and her dying mother. Her dramatisations of Freud's case histories of Dora and the Wolfman were broadcast on Radio 4 in 2012.
