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‘I had a year to write it from scratch’: the 2025 Booker finalists on the stories behind their novels

The Guardian 1 min read 5 hours ago

<p>A newspaper report about a missing girl, the memory of a midwinter emergency … Susan Choi, Andrew Miller, David Szalay and others on what inspired their shortlisted books </p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/09/the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny-by-kiran-desai-review-a-dazzling-epic">The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/08/booker-2025-shortlist-desai-kitamura-choi-markovits-miller-szalay">Continue reading...</a>
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