Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.Today's episode features Claire Varley discussing her new novel The Book of Ordinary People.The Book of Ordinary People follows five seemingly ordinary people across Melbourne. Each of their lives are buffeted by the cities daily grind; stuck in traffic or waiting on the train, and each must face these challenges from a unique perspective. The mother, and the family man, the young lawyer and the refugee. Each a part of the faceless mass that passes for community and each spinning closer to the other every moment.