Tea or Books? #117 w/ Lucy Scholes – Do We Like Unnamed Characters? and Ex-Wife vs Sally On The Rocks

Ursula Parrott, Winifred Boggs, unnamed characters – welcome to episode 117! We are so delighted to welcome Lucy Scholes as a guest for this episode. She’s is a reprint/old books superstar – you might know her Re-Covered column for the Paris

Ursula Parrott, Winifred Boggs, unnamed characters – welcome to episode 117!

We are so delighted to welcome Lucy Scholes as a guest for this episode. She’s is a reprint/old books superstar – you might know her Re-Covered column for the Paris Review, her work as Senior Editor of McNally Editions, or her editing of A Different Sound: Stories of Mid-Century Women Writers. Or any number of other things. What excitement to have her on the episode!

In the first half, we discuss unnamed narrators and other characters – are we fans? In the second half we pit Sally on the Rocks by Winifred Boggs against Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott, both recently reprinted novels that are quite ahead of their time.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie

West With The Night by Beryl Markham

English Journey by Beryl Bainbridge

J.B. Priestley

Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge

Gerald: A Portrait by Daphne du Maurier

A Flat Place by Noreen Masud

Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg

My Face For The World To See by Alfred Hayes

Foster by Claire Keegan

Making Love by Jean-Philippe Toussaint

The Forensic Records Society by Magnus Mills

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

Milkman by Anna Burns

Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas

Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe

Mrs S by K Patrick

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Rebecca Watson

The Love Child by Edith Olivier

Elizabeth Bowen

They by Kay Dick

The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble

The Indignant Spinsters by Winifred Boggs

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen