How many chances will we give an author? And Margery Sharp!   In the first half of the episode, we ask whether we’re one-strike-you’re-out people or if we’re willing to give an author several chances – and which authors we’ve

How many chances will we give an author? And Margery Sharp!


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In the first half of the episode, we ask whether we’re one-strike-you’re-out people or if we’re willing to give an author several chances – and which authors we’ve learned to love after a few books. In the second half, we compare Cluny Brown and The Gipsy in the Parlour by Margery Sharp.


Do get in touch to let us know which you’d choose, and any other Sharp novels you’d recommend. You can see the podcast at iTunes, support us at Patreon, and do rate and review us at your podcast app of choice, please! Get in touch also if you have any ideas for future episodes – we’re pretty open to suggestions, especially for the first half of the episodes. Apologies for some dodgy sound quality in Rachel’s recording – and for her washing machine, of course. And the discussion of the novels is a bit shorter than intended because I cut a bit where we gave away too many spoilers!


The books and authors we mention in this episode are:


Progress of Julius by Daphne du Maurier

Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

Small Island by Andrea Levy

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark

Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

A Room With A View by E.M. Forster

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Howards End by E.M. Forster

Charles Dickens

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

Melmoth by Sarah Perry

Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald

Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan

The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen

The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen

To The North by Elizabeth Bowen

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Jose Saramago

Dan Brown

William Shakespeare

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

The Sandcastle by Irish Murdoch

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Saturday by Ian McEwan

Black Dogs by Ian McEwan

Atonement by Ian McEwan

E.M. Delafield

The Foolish Gentlewoman by Margery Sharp

P.G. Wodehouse

The Eye of Love by Margery Sharp

Britannia Mews by Margery Sharp

Lise Lillywhite by Margery Sharp

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

The Triumphant Footman by Edith Olivier

Miss Mole by E.H. Young

Chatterton Square by E.H. Young

The Nutmeg Tree by Margery Sharp

Stoner by John Williams

The Easter Parade by Richard Yates