Tea or Books? #58: Book Groups (yes or no), and The Fountain Overflows vs Invitation to the Waltz

Rebecca West, Rosamond Lehmann, and book groups – welcome to episode 58!   I can hardly believe that we’ve not done an episode on book groups before – but here we are! In the first half, Rachel and I talk

Rebecca West, Rosamond Lehmann, and book groups – welcome to episode 58!

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I can hardly believe that we’ve not done an episode on book groups before – but here we are! In the first half, Rachel and I talk about whether or not we’re in book groups, and what would constitute our ideal book group. In the second half, we discuss Rebecca West’s 1956 novel The Fountain Overflows and compare it with Rosamond Lehmann’s 1932 novel Invitation to the Waltz – both the beginning of series, and both about young women entering the world.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gower

The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

Stonecliff by Robert Nathan

Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan

The Train in the Meadow by Robert Nathan

Mr Whittle and the Morning Star by Robert Nathan

Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

Being Dead by Jim Crace

Reading Groups by Jenny Hartley

Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras

Regeneration by Pat Barker

Thomas Hardy

Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton

Jose Saramago

George Macdonald Fraser

P.G. Wodehouse

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Immortality by Milan Kundera

E.M. Delafield

Illustrado by Miguel Syjuco

To The North by Elizabeth Bowen

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay

Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann

The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West

This Real Night by Rebecca West

Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West

The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann

Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge

Barbara Comyns

Rachel Ferguson

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann

Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann

Virginia Woolf

Thank Heaven Fasting by E.M. Delafield

‘Her First Ball’ by Katherine Mansfield

Harriet Hume by Rebecca West

H.G. Wells

Rebecca West by Victoria Glendinning

Random Commentary by Dorothy Whipple

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson