Tea or Books? #20: first vs third person and Cider With Rosie vs My Family and Other Animals

  Happy birthday us! We actually passed our birthday by a couple of weeks, but this is the first podcast after the big day. Can you believe it’s been a whole year? And it might be our longest episode yet.

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Happy birthday us! We actually passed our birthday by a couple of weeks, but this is the first podcast after the big day. Can you believe it’s been a whole year? And it might be our longest episode yet.

In episode 20 we tackle first person vs third person (with, spoilers, some confusion and no research at all) and two wonderful childhood memoirs – Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee and My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. It’s a tricky decision, guys (and, of course, the correct decision is to read both).

Check out our iTunes page (rate! review! I’m sick of the ‘not enough ratings to show’ text) or listen via your podcast app of choice. And don’t forget that my brother has a movies podcast that you might enjoy too.

Let us know which you’d choose in each category! Here are the books and authors we mention today…

Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar

Orphan Island by Rose Macaulay

The Rain Girl by Herbert Jenkins

A Cup of Tea for Mr Thorgill by Storm Jameson

A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford

Cazalet Chronicles series by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Poor Relations by Compton Mackenzie

Saki

Speaking of Love by Angela Young

Rebecca’s Tale by Sally Beauman

Wish Her Safe at Home by Stephen Benatar

A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Emma by Jane Austen

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Art of the Novel ed. Nicholas Royle

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Rose Macaulay

Beryl Bainbridge

Muriel Spark

Barbara Pym

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Richmal Crompton

Margaret Atwood

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Impassioned Clay by Stevie Davies

The Great Gatsy by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

Laurence Durrell

William Shakespeare