Tea or Books? #110: Do We Care Where Characters Work? and A Helping Hand vs The True Deceiver
Tea or Books?
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Tove Jansson, Celia Dale, jobs in books! Welcome to episode 110 A bit of a longer break than usual because I lost my voice. But we’re back, asking – in the first half of the episode – whether we care
Tove Jansson, Celia Dale, jobs in books! Welcome to episode 110
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A bit of a longer break than usual because I lost my voice. But we’re back, asking – in the first half of the episode – whether we care where characters work? Are we drawn to books about workplaces?
In the second half, we compare two very good novels – Tove Jansson’s The True Deceiver and Celia Dale’s A Helping Hand.
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The books and authors we mention in this episode:
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Managing Expectations by Minnie Driver
How We Love by Clementine Ford
High Wages by Dorothy Whipple
Business As Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford
Babbacombe’s by Susan Scarlett
A Pin To See The Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
Dangerous Ages by Rose Macaulay
The Doctor’s Children by Josephine Elder
The Citadel by A.J. Cronin
Thrush Green series by Miss Read
Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Fresh From The Country by Miss Read
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
Little by Edward Carey
The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey
The Maintenance of Headway by Magnus Mills
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
Three To See The King by Magnus Mills
The Good Companions by J.B. Priestley
Wise Children by Angela Carter
Love of Seven Dolls by Paul Gallico
War Among Ladies by Eleanor Scott
Nice Work by David Lodge
The British Museum is Falling Down by David Lodge
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
A Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood
A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood
Sarra Manning
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Full House by M.J. Farrell
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane