Tea or Books? #103: Thinking vs Feeling and Moon Tiger vs The Diviners

Penelope Lively, Margaret Laurence, thinking and feeling – welcome to episode 103! Apologies for the unexpected delay in recording. Blame Rachel! But we are here and raring to go. In the first half, we follow a topic suggested by Mairad

Penelope Lively, Margaret Laurence, thinking and feeling – welcome to episode 103!

Apologies for the unexpected delay in recording. Blame Rachel! But we are here and raring to go. In the first half, we follow a topic suggested by Mairad (topic ideas to [email protected], please!) – do we prefer books that make us think, or books that make us feel?

In the second half, two novels that ended up having more in common than we initially imagined – Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively and The Diviners by Margaret Laurence. And no, despite the lengthy break, ONE of us hadn’t finished reading the books.

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(This is my first episode on a new laptop, which might explain some of the weird clicking that Rachel’s side picked up? I don’t know. Sorry about it!)

The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Feast by Margaret Kennedy

The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy

The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett

Which Way? by Theodora Benson

The Native Heath by Elizabeth Fair

Brampton Wick by Elizabeth Fair

A Winter Away by Elizabeth Fair

Into the Woods by John Yorke

Emma by Jane Austen

Because of the Lockwoods by Dorothy Whipple

Dorothy L Sayers

Agatha Christie

Milan Kundera

Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

According to Mark by Penelope Lively

The Heatwave by Penelope Lively

How It All Began by Penelope Lively

The Photograph by Penelope Lively

Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively

The Great Fortune by Olivia Manning

William – an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton