Families – Fabulous and Fractious
Esther Freud and Sofka Zinovieff discuss the pleasures and tensions of writing about families – real, imagined and somewhere in between.
The Ionian Academy
1 Kapodistriou St, Corfu Town
Friday, 25th September 2026
Tickets from eventbrite: https://bit.ly/4y7pcs4
Sofka Zinovieff joins Catherine Fairweather on The Third Act to discuss the ideas at the heart of her writing: inherited identity, complex family dynamics and the rituals that give shape to loss. The conversation explores how personal experience informed her latest novel, Stealing Dad, and why these themes continue to resonate with readers. Listen on
On BBC Radio 3’s Private Passions, Sofka Zinovieff joins Michael Berkeley to discuss the family histories and personal experiences that have shaped her writing, including her latest novel, Stealing Dad. The conversation ranges from her Russian and British family background to her father, the composer and synthesiser pioneer Peter Zinovieff, and the music she loves,
