Bernadette Brennan
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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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These women are in us.
These women are part of our history.
These women are voices we need to know.
I challenge any reader to read this book and not recognise aspects of themselves in this book, which is why it's so rich and powerful and beautiful.
If you don't talk about haunting, I think she directly does it.
And since you've got the page numbers, even I remember a page number, it's 200.
She's out walking with, she's broken out again from the abandoned chapel and she runs into a man who's walking his dog and the dog stops and just looks at her and doesn't move.
And the man says to her something like, you know, he must've thought you're a ghost or something like that.
And she laughed too.
And then there's a line where she says, you know, the dog was right.
And she says, but it was instead of haunting onwards from death that she was haunting backwards from life so that she actually nails it in that moment and that she's here in this life.
She is willfully going back to be part of those women's lives of the past and she's reanimating them and giving them to us.
The past absolutely keeps this character alive all the way through.
And the other thing we haven't mentioned is that we're never quite sure there's three at least, well, there's multiple, this is a polyphonic text.
We actually have a narrator who's watching herself, who is called the reader, who may or may not be Doreen Negrifa,
And then, of course, we've got Lucia, who is writing the case notes.
And then we've got all these women.
In that A Ghost in the Throat, she begins, the very first words are, this is a female text.
And she repeats it again and again, this is a female text.
I'm not saying this book, Said the Dead, is a female text, because that would be to deny a sense that all genders should read this book.
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