Tea or Books? #71: Multi-Narrative vs Single Narrative, and Period Piece vs A London Child of the 1870s

Lots of perspectives or a single narrative, and two 19th-century childhood memoirs – here we go! In the first half of this episode, we discuss multi-narrative novels and whether or not we prefer them to single narrative novels. In the

Lots of perspectives or a single narrative, and two 19th-century childhood memoirs – here we go!

In the first half of this episode, we discuss multi-narrative novels and whether or not we prefer them to single narrative novels. In the second half, we turn to memoirs of 19th-century childhood – Molly Hughes’ novel A London Child of the 1870s vs Gwen Raverat’s Period Piece.

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Do get in touch with ideas for future topics – and the books and authors we mentioned in this episode are:

Lonely City by Olivia Laing

To The River by Olivia Laing

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada

Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood

On the Other Side by Mathilde Wolff-Monckeburg

Walter Scott

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

Pax by Sara Pennypacker

Speaking of Love by Angela Young

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

How To Be Both by Ali Smith

Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Girl on the Train by Paul Hawkins

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell

Barbara Comyns

Blue Remembered Hills by Rosemary Sutcliff

Vanessa Bell by Francis Spalding

A London Girl of the 1880s by Molly Hughes

A London Family Between the Wars by Molly Hughes

A London Home in the 1890s by Molly Hughes

The Runaway by Elizabeth Anna Hart

Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf