Tea or Books? #123: Critical or Charitable Reading? and Sheep’s Clothing vs Harriet Said…

Beryl Bainbridge, Celia Dale, critical and charitable reading – welcome to episode 123! In the first half of the episode we use a suggestion from Susannah – do we read charitably or critically? In the second half we compare too

Beryl Bainbridge, Celia Dale, critical and charitable reading – welcome to episode 123!

In the first half of the episode we use a suggestion from Susannah – do we read charitably or critically? In the second half we compare too rather dark novels – Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale and Harriet Said… by Beryl Bainbridge.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Mary Lawson

Stories for Winter and Nights by the Fire by various

Elizabeth Taylor

Angela Carter

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Temptation by János Székely

Family Album by Antonia Ridge

Miss Read

Grandma Went To Russia by Antonia Ridge

The Persimmon Tree by Marjorie Barnard

Katherine Mansfield

Ivy Litvinov

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Richmal Crompton

Stella Gibbons

Day by Michael Cunningham

Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham

A.A. Milne

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Dan Brown

Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge

Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh

Another Part of the Woods by Beryl Bainbridge

Anita Brookner

Barbara Comyns