In this video, author and musician Kae Tempest talks about the core themes of forgiveness and atonement in his second novel, Having Spent Life Seeking (Jonathan Cape, 2026), and transmuting his musical background into prose in this conversation with Dua Lipa for the Service95 Book Club series.
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