Tea or Books? #89: Do we care about gardens?, and Gilead vs Home

Marilynne Robinson and gardens – welcome to episode 89! We are scraping the barrel a little in our first half, and arguably repeating ourselves, but please enjoy our musings on gardens. In the second half, after answering a question from

Marilynne Robinson and gardens – welcome to episode 89!

We are scraping the barrel a little in our first half, and arguably repeating ourselves, but please enjoy our musings on gardens. In the second half, after answering a question from Jen, we talk about Marilynne Robinson’s novels Gilead and Home. Finally, after talking about it for years!

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Random Commentary by Dorothy Whipple

The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins

O, The Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith

Expiation by Elizabeth von Arnim

Father by Elizabeth von Arnim

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham

Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham

Letters of Tove Jansson

Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce

A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz

Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink

On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior

Faces of Justice by Sybille Bedford

Not at Home by Doris Langley Moore

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

Down the Garden Path by Beverley Nichols

Merry Hall by Beverley Nichols

Dear Friend and Gardener by Beth Chatto and Christopher Lloyd

A.A. Milne

A Thatched Roof by Beverley Nichols

Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Virginia Woolf’s Garden by Caroline Zoob

The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkley

Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay

Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay

A Scream in Soho by John Brandon

The Lake District Murder by John Bude

Agatha Christie

Quick Curtain by Alan Melville

Death of Anton by Alan Melville

The Secret of High Eldersham by Miles Burton

Mystery in White by J Jefferson Farjeon

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Home by Marilynne Robinson

Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Jack by Marilynne Robinson

O, The Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith

Miss Plum and Miss Penny by Dorothy Evelyn Smith