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Anne Fleming on love stories and curiosity

By Kobo • November 27, 2024Kobo in Conversation Podcast

I enjoy reading love stories, and I'm suspicious of love stories. And so, I'm trying to navigate that.

Host Michael Tamblyn spoke with novelist Anne Fleming, author of Curiosities, which was a finalist for the 2024 Giller Prize. It’s the story of how five fictional 17th century manuscripts uncovered by an amateur historian named Anne paint a picture of a handful of unusual lives.

Curiosities by Anne Fleming

This sparkling, genre-bending novel opens with amateur historian Anne, who has a passion for research into the murkier corners of England in the 1600s. In an archive, Anne has stumbled across an obscure memoir, one that hints at an intricate tapestry of secret lives and loves.

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