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 it's a wonderful picture of
Australian middle class life on the land and the gentry and the, I mean, we have to also say it's horrendously racist and also just brutally classist as well, this book.
But it's a great evocation of the bloom of life when things are good.
And lack of personal insight, I think, as well.
Yes, yes, perhaps.
A person who really does not know herself or what is in front of her.
It's frustrating.
Oh, what about Mrs. Meswat?
She's happy with her lot, with all her children, her beautiful children, her handsome husband, so she thinks, even though he's a dirty, dirty man, he doesn't wash.
But anyway, she seemed to be the only one who was genuinely happy.
And yet, of course, yes.
Yes.
But she also can stand up and is still instantly recognisable as a lady when she greets a visitor at the door.
So she still has retained this class training.
Yes, and you're right, that prize is such a gift to the nation.
I would say the language is sometimes surprising and wonderful, and I'm just thinking of the Meswat's awfully untuned piano, which she describes as that demented piano, which some of the expressions just leapt out.
I think her characters are...
quickly drawn but deep and you feel very, very close to them in a real sense.
You know them very quickly.
I liked that.
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