About this video

Francesca Wade has written for publications including the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Financial Times, New Statesman and Prospect. She is editor of The White Review, an arts and literary journal, and winner of the Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize. Listen to Francesca talk about her new novel Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars, which focuses on the lives of five women who lived in Mecklenburgh Square, Bloomsbury between 1916 and 1940.