Tea or Books? #55: Versatility vs Dependability and House-Bound by Winifred Peck vs The Priory by Dorothy Whipple

Dorothy Whipple, Winifred Peck, and authors who hop genres – welcome to episode 55!   In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I discuss a topic suggested by my friend Paul (thanks Paul!) – versatility vs dependability. Well,

Dorothy Whipple, Winifred Peck, and authors who hop genres – welcome to episode 55!

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In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I discuss a topic suggested by my friend Paul (thanks Paul!) – versatility vs dependability. Well, the way he phrased it was ‘would we buy a book by an author we liked if it was in a different genre’, and we interpreted it into a question that was easier to type into a subject line.

In the second half, we look at two novels from around the same period – House-Bound (1941) by Winifred Peck and The Priory (1939) by Dorothy Whipple – both of which have been republished by Persephone.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

Family Man by Calvin Trillin

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

Happy Returns by Angela Thirkell

The Lark by E. Nesbit

Penelope Lively

High Wages by Dorothy Whipple

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Dorothy Whipple

Marghanita Laski

Tory Heaven by Marghanita Laski

P.G. Wodehouse

Agatha Christie

Richmal Crompton

Anne Tyler

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn

Henceforward… by Alan Ayckbourn

Susan Hill

Stephen King

The Beacon by Susan Hill

A Kind Man by Susan Hill

Barbara Pym

Hilary Mantel

Penelope Fitzgerald

Beryl Bainbridge

Straw Without Bricks by E.M. Delafield

Provincial Lady novels by E.M. Delafield

Consequences by E.M. Delafield

Saplings by Noel Streatfeild

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

Anthony Trollope

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

A.A. Milne

William Maxwell

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

How To Run Your Home Without Help by Kay Smallshaw

Monica Dickens

Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple

Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther

One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens

Arrest the Bishop by Winifred Peck

Bewildering Cares by Winifred Peck