So far, Free by Lea Ypi has been awarded the Sunday Times’ ‘Memoir of the Year’, and has been chosen as one of the books of the year by the Guardian, Financial Times, TLS, Sunday Times and Daily Mail. It is currently on the shortlist for the Costa Biography Award and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
Ypi, who is a professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics, joins us in March 2022 to discuss this tale of family secrets and political awakenings set against a crumbling regime.