The novelists Andrew O’Hagan and Rachel Joyce join John and Andy for this episode to talk about Thérèse Raquin (1868), the third published novel by the great French master of naturalism, Émile Zola, which, despite some famously disparaging reviews, became an immediate bestseller and established Zola’s literary reputation.

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