<p>The brilliant author, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hattiewilliamswrites/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hattie Williams</a>, joins Julia to recount her early experiences watching The X Files on BBC Two.</p><br><p>No 9-year-old should see the things she's seen, but she finds the show's serial killer - Eugene Tooms - more funny than frightening now. Remember the yellow-eyed lurker who lived in nests made of his own lick and slithered through sewage pipes in search of his next victim?</p><br><p>Well, Hattie does in great, gratuitous detail.</p><br><p>Her gripping debut novel -<a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/bitter-sweet-the-intoxicating-razor-sharp-debut-book-club-read-for-2025-everyone-is-talking-about-hattie-williams/c4edafecbc6a93c3?ean=9781398722804&amp;next=t" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Bitter Sweet</a> - is out now in hardback and is totally unputdownable.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>