Tea or Books? #92: Do We Care What Characters Wear? and Girl, Woman, Other vs Life After Life

Bernadine Evaristo, Kate Atkinson, and clothes – welcome to episode 92.

In the first half of the episode, Rachel and I discuss clothes in books – do we care what characters wear? I forgot to mention, but do check out Moira’s excellent Clothes in Books blog for lots of this sort of thing.

In the second half, we are unusually modern – comparing Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

The Flick by Annie Baker
John by Annie Baker
A Winter Book by Tove Jansson
A Name to Conjure With by G.B. Stern
For All We Know by G.B. Stern
Alan Ayckbourn
Harvey by Mary Chase
Speaking of Jane Austen by Sheila Kaye-Smith and G.B. Stern
More Talk of Jane Austen by Sheila Kaye-Smith and G.B. Stern
Flowers for Mrs Harris by Paul Gallico
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day by Winifred Watson
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
High Wages by Dorothy Whipple
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
‘Miss Brill’ by Katherine Mansfield
The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Letter From New York by Helene Hanff
Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert Jenkins
Emma by Jane Austen
Daisy’s Aunt by E.F. Benson
Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson
Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp
Ashcombe by Cecil Beaton
Edith Olivier
Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor
A Winter Book by Tove Jansson
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson