Bernadette Brennan
speaker
419 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2018
last heard 29 May
Bernadette Brennan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And yet, this is actually...
Deeply nostalgic, this book, at its heart, deeply sentimental, still true and still witnessing the brutality of life.
But I thought it was ironic because it's so sweet, this book.
But are you just left as... Yeah, and Ida's music drawing the neighbours to their fences as they hear it wafting through the windows of the Golden Age and the policemen turning up at the concert that Ida's doing for fundraising.
Yeah, sitting in the front row, I...
It is a little kind of rosy, a view of art.
Maggie, you just nailed it.
You just nailed it.
That's exactly how I feel about her after having just read this book, you know, just over the weekend and watched the film again and being totally frustrated with her and the character she has created, Sabella Melvin.
It's frustrating, but I can't let it go.
I actually feel a little bit obsessed and even possessed by her.
She's trapped, actually.
trapped in her own physicality.
Yeah.
Maybe it's worth just backtracking over the history of the writing of the book.
So she was born in 1879.
She wrote this book when she was 16 over something like 10 weeks and then sent it off to publishers.
It was knocked back by I think two or three of them
And in this moment of absolute gumption, which is entirely consistent with her central character, Sabella Melvin, she sends it to Henry Lawson, who's really kind of probably a bit like us, Maggie, infuriated and sort of perplexed, but also taken with the voice that leaps out of the pages.
So Henry Lawson sends the manuscript to, or takes it, I think, to Scotland, to Edinburgh, where his publishers are.
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