Andrew Miller, a previous Costa winnter, discusses his astonishing, risky latest, 'The Crossing', which is a contemporary story told with the same dark wit and unflinching honesty as those earlier novels. Portraying a wonderfully difficult, seld-willed woman, coping with marriage, motherhood, tragedy and a heroic long distance solo yacht voyage, it asks uncomfortable questions of what society and indeed readers of novels, require of their women. Andrew will be in conversation with his friend, novelist Rupert Thomson