Bernadette Brennan
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419 appearances
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first heard May 2018
last heard 29 May
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but knowing that you will come back and read it again.
So that's 14 Ways of Looking.
It's a memoir.
It's extraordinary.
And from that book, I went straight on to Claire Thomas's On Not Climbing Mountains.
Oh, I like that one too.
Oh, yes.
Well, it speaks beautifully back to Erin's memoir.
And again, since you've read that one, you'll understand it's
Both of these books are fragmentary.
They're deeply researched.
They are both telling a story of grief and of mourning very subtly.
And you're allowed to approach the subject of mourning differently.
as gently and as brilliantly as you can.
I think both of those writers, Claire Thomas and Erin Vincent, are extraordinary with what they can do with structure.
Anybody that wants to learn about structure, read one of those two books.
They were my real standouts that I've read recently.
I'm currently in the middle of Gwendolyn Riley's The Palm House, which I picked up because I was in London.
I just saw it on the thing.
Oh, Gwendolyn Riley's got a new book.
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