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In front of an audience at this year\u2019s Hay Festival Helen Lewis talks to three prize winning authors about their work.

Damon Galgut\u2019s Booker-winning The Promise tells the story of a family and a country \u2013 South Africa \u2013 and the failed promises that destroy them both. The exciting promise of a super-connected world where memories are currency is set against the quest for privacy in Jennifer Egan\u2019s new novel The Candy House. And Margo Jefferson examines every passion, memory and influence \u2013 from family to jazz to art \u2013 in her new memoir, Constructing a Nervous System.

Producer: Katy Hickman