Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rosemary Sutcliff, and the scope of the books we love. Happy February!   In the first half of this episode, we discuss small world vs wide world in novels – do we like small communities or novels

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rosemary Sutcliff, and the scope of the books we love. Happy February!


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In the first half of this episode, we discuss small world vs wide world in novels – do we like small communities or novels where characters move around a lot? In the second half, we find out what the other thought of our recommendations. I thought Rachel would love Blue Remembered Hills by Rosemary Sutcliff; she thought I’d love Seasoned Timber by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Did we get it right?


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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:


The Crimson and the White by Michel Faber

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier

The Book of William by Paul Collins

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare by Bill Bryson

Contested Will by James Shapiro

Emma by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Shirley Jackson

Barbara Pym

South Riding by Winifred Holtby

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Charles Dickens

My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Everything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

Larchfield by Polly Clark

Bleaker House by Nell Stevens

Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Four Days’ Wonder by A.A. Milne

The 39 Steps by John Buchan

The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

The Great Western Beach by Emma Smith

The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Her Son’s Wife by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Cinderella Goes to the Morgue by Nancy Spain

Look Back With Love by Dodie Smith

Period Piece by Gwen Raverat

A London Child of the 1870s by Molly Hughes