Tea or Books? #51: Author Parents vs Author Children, and The Boat by L.P. Hartley vs Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Literary families, and the reveal on our recommendations for each other – we’re back after a seasonal break. We’ve missed you!   In the first half of our 51st episode, we look at families where more than one generation has

Literary families, and the reveal on our recommendations for each other – we’re back after a seasonal break. We’ve missed you!

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In the first half of our 51st episode, we look at families where more than one generation has written, and try to determine whether we tend to prefer the parents or children – thank you Paul and Kirsty for your suggestion. And in the second half we find out whether or not our recommendations worked. We each picked a book we thought the other one would love – how well do we know each other’s tastes? I chose The Boat by L.P. Hartley for Rachel, and she chose Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner for me.

In the next episode we’ll be doing Penelope vs Penelope. All suggestions welcome (if you’ve sent one, it will doubtless happen eventually, once I dig it out from somewhere), and you can see our iTunes page here. If you can work out how to do reviews, via iTunes, they are always much appreciated!

The (enormous number of!) books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

Mr Men series by Roger Hargreaves

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

Bluestockings by Jane Robinson

No Surrender by Constance Maud

The Real Mrs Miniver by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther

Terms and Conditions by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

The Priory by Dorothy Whipple

Money by Martin Amis

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Faulks on Fiction by Sebastian Faulks

E.M. Delafield

The Unlucky Family by Mrs Henry de la Pasture (not The Unhappy Family!)

Provincial Daughter by R.M. Dashwood

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Trilby by George du Maurier

Only the Sister by Angela du Maurier

Virginia Woolf

Leslie Stephen

Anthony Trollope

Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope

American Notes by Charles Dickens

A.A. Milne

Christopher Milne

Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft

Angela Thirkell

Colin Macinnes

Denis Mackail

E.F. Benson

Stella Benson

Sitwells

Corduroy by Adrian Bell

Virginia Woolf by Quentin Bell

Bloomsbury by Quentin Bell

Angelica Garnett

Family Skeletons by Henrietta Garnett

Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson

Frieda Plath

Ted Hughes

Sylvia Plath

A.S. Byatt

Margaret Drabble

Margaret Forster

Ivy Compton-Burnett by Cecily Grieg

Appointment in Arezzo by Alan Taylor

Meyer

Bloomsbury’s Outsider by Sarah Knights

H.G. Wells and His Family by M.M. Meyer

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Alan Bennett

Two People by A.A. Milne

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

A Perfect Woman by L.P. Hartley

The Betrayal by L.P. Hartley

According to Mark by Penelope Lively

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Mortimer