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The Most Unreliable Narrators, From Agatha Christie to Iris Murdoch

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Sophie Hannah, the author of the new novel The Orphan Choir, has always preferred the sketchy storyteller. Why should a narrator openly tell us everything when we haven’t earned that privilege?

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