Christine Murphy has lived, worked, and travelled in more than a hundred countries, including eleven months in a tent on the African continent and a year as a resident in a Buddhist nunnery in the Himalayas. She is a trained Buddhistologist with a Ph.D. in religious studies. Murphy joins Stephanie to discuss everything from her top tips to writing her first novel, Notes on Surviving the Fire. Notes on Surviving the Fire is a story about vengeance, the insidious nature of rape culture and ultimately, a woman's journey to come back to herself. When Sarah’s only friend in her graduate program is found dead of an alleged heroin overdose, Sarah is forced back into the orbit of the man in their department who assaulted her. A hurtling ride of a novel—darkly funny and propulsive.

“A thriller’s bones, a satire’s glare, and a comeuppance story’s anarchic spirit.”—The New Yorker

More about Christine and her book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742169/notes-on-surviving-the-fire-by-christine-murphy/

Christine is an anarchic spirit according to The New York Times and is very good at deciphering the times we live in.

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