Joan Barfoot, Constance Beresford-Howe, narrators – welcome to episode 155!
In the first half, we use a suggestion from listener Rebecca: do we prefer narrators as main characters in a novel or as side characters?
The books and authors we mention in this episode:
The Return of the Bookseller Diarist by Shaun Bythell
Charlotte Bronte’s Life Through Clothes by Eleanor Houghton
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Good Solder by Ford Maddox Ford
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf
The Portrait by Willem Jan Otten
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Carter Dickson
Ivy Compton-Burnett by Cicely Greig
H.G. Wells
The Offing by Benjamin Myers
Barbara Pym
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
Molly Clavering
Susan Scarlett
Spring Magic by D.E. Stevenson
Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil G. Brinton
Emma by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Agatha Christie
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Brontes Went To Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson
Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Pastor Austen’s Daughter by Helen Ashton
Longbourn by Jo Baker