Tea or Books? #102: Do We Read Books about Grief? and Five Windows vs Four Gardens – with Claire The Captive Reader

D.E. Stevenson, Margery Sharp – and a special guest! In this episode, we have a special guest in the form of Claire – you’ll know her blog The Captive Reader. We were delighted to have her as a guest, especially

D.E. Stevenson, Margery Sharp – and a special guest!

In this episode, we have a special guest in the form of Claire – you’ll know her blog The Captive Reader. We were delighted to have her as a guest, especially as she also came up with our topics.

In the first half, we discuss books about grief – and whether or not we are drawn to them. In the second half, we compare two novels with similar premises: Five Windows by D.E. Stevenson and Four Gardens by Margery Sharp. Both, thankfully, have recently been republished by Dean Street Press.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Maeve Kerrigan series by Jane Casey

The Good Companions by J.B. Priestley

Let’s Get Physical by Danielle Friedman

Ghosts: A Cultural History by Susan Owens

Un Noel de Maigret by Georges Simenon

Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson

Dishonoured Bones by John Trench

John Buchan

Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson

Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson

Margaret Atwood

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott

Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery

Enid Blyton

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

In the Springtime of the Year by Susan Hill

Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt

Let Not The Waves of the Sea by Simon Stephenson

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

All The Lives We Ever Lived by Katharine Smyth

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

A Half-Baked Idea by Olivia Potts

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Anthony Trollope

A Magnificent Obsession by Helen Rappaport

After the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport

These For Remembrance by John Buchan

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

In the Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim

Mrs Tim of the Regiment by D.E. Stevenson

The Stone of Chastity by Margery Sharp

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp

The Gipsy in the Parlour by Margery Sharp

Britannia Mews by Margery Sharp

The English Air by D.E. Stevenson

Green Money by D.E. Stevenson

Listening Valley by D.E. Stevenson

Miss Read

Moon Tiger by Penelope Tiger

The Diviners by Margaret Laurence