Tea or Books? #41: novels set in one day vs many years, and The Forsyte Saga vs The Cazalet Chronicles

John Galsworthy! Elizabeth Jane Howard! Circadian novels! Find out what that means, and much more, in episode 41.   Guys, it was SUPER hot when we were recording this podcast. It’s rather cooler now that I’m editing, but I rather

John Galsworthy! Elizabeth Jane Howard! Circadian novels! Find out what that means, and much more, in episode 41.

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Guys, it was SUPER hot when we were recording this podcast. It’s rather cooler now that I’m editing, but I rather worry that I wasn’t making much sense in this episode… forgive any heat-induced nonsense. And potentially wavering audible quality. So hot. I have cunningly edited out the bits where I went to get more cold water.

(Blame that for me saying ‘Alan Bennett’ when I mean ‘Arnold Bennett’.)

In the first half, we look at the length we like books to cover – from books where all the action takes place in one day to those where it’s over many years. And, for the second half, we’ve read more than ever this time – two chunksters, albeit only the first books in their respective series. We’re comparing A Man of Property by John Galsworthy and The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard – the openers to the Forsyte Saga and the Cazalet Chronicles.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are, as always, below:

My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Another Time, Another Place by Jessie Kesson

One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes

One Day by David Nicholls

London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? by John Sutherland

Ulysses by James Joyce

Saturday by Ian McEwan

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey

Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day by Winifred Watson

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Jodi Picoult

The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Weatherley Parade by Richmal Crompton

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair

Alas, Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson

Us by David Nicholls

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

Agatha Christie

Marcel Proust

The Year of Reading Proust by Phyllis Rose

Shakespeare

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Catherine Cookson

The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

A Man of Property by John Galsworthy

The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks

A Pin To See The Peepshow by F Tennyson Jesse

The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett

H.G. Wells

Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner