Chloe Aridjis & Jennifer Higgie: The Shadow of the Object

In her latest novel, The Shadow of the Object (Chatto and Windus), Chloe Aridjis takes us between Mexico and London via dream-like conversations and magic lantern shows.

While recuperating in hospital in Mexico, Flora meets Wilhelmina, an elderly German woman with pneumonia, who collects pre-cinema toys and instruments. The two of them embark on a series of dream-like conversations in the hospital corridors. Wilhelmina puts on a magic lantern show for Flora, leaving her spellbound. Then things take an unexpected turn…

Aridjis read from The Shadow of the Object and was in conversation with Jennifer Higgie, whose most recent books are The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World and Bedlam