In this episode, we ask whether or not offensive books should be republished – you might remember the same conversation happening here on StuckinaBook a while ago, and it was interesting to visit it with Rachel. In the second half, we pit two Barbara Pym novels against each other – Crampton Hodnet and A Glass of Blessings.
Sorry it’s been a while – we actually recorded this a couple of weeks ago but it’s been too hot for me to edit a podcast. I know that doesn’t make sense, but I’m sticking to it.
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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
I Ordered a Table for Six by Noel Streatfeild
Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
Miss Linsey and Pa by Stella Gibbons
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
O, The Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym
Philip Larkin
An Academic Question by Barbara Pym
A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
Walter Pater
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Emma by Jane Austen
Tension by E.M. Delafield
Thank Heaven Fasting by E.M. Delafield