Tea or Books? #112: Best Books of 2022 and They Were Sisters vs The Three Sisters

Dorothy Whipple, May Sinclair, and favourite books of 2022 – welcome to episode 112! Happy new year! Welcome to the first episode of Tea or Books? for 2023 – recorded on two different days, so hopefully it’s not too awkward.

Dorothy Whipple, May Sinclair, and favourite books of 2022 – welcome to episode 112!

Happy new year! Welcome to the first episode of Tea or Books? for 2023 – recorded on two different days, so hopefully it’s not too awkward. In the first half, we cover our favourite reads from 2022 (so won’t be a HUGE surprise if you read my blog) and in the second half we compare They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple and The Three Sisters by May Sinclair.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode:

Village Diary by Miss Read

Storm in the Village by Miss Read

In Chancery by John Galsworthy

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Four Gardens by Margery Sharp

Five Windows by D.E. Stevenson

Britannia Mews by Margery Sharp

E.M. Delafield

Remainders of the Day by Shaun Bythell

Three Things You Should Know About Rockets by Jessica A. Fox

Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell

Things I Don’t Want To Know by Deborah Levy

The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy

Real Estate by Deborah Levy

War Among Ladies by Eleanor Scott

Lucy By The Sea by Elizabeth Strout

My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

Oh, William by Elizabeth Strout

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund

The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning

The Home by Penelope Mortimer

The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer

Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer

The New House by Lettice Cooper

National Provincial by Lettice Cooper

Black Bethlehem by Lettice Cooper

Desirable Residence by Lettice Cooper

On Color by David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell

Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell

A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson

Anne Tyler

Barbara Kingsolver

The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson

The Good Companions by J.B. Priestley

Paying Guests by E.F. Benson

Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla

Suddenly, A Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret

A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence

The Diviners by Margaret Laurence

The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair

Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair

The Brontes

Virginia Woolf

Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair

Mr Waddington of Wyck by May Sinclair

Young Anne by Dorothy Whipple

Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell

South Riding by Winifred Holtby