Bianca Marais

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5,233 appearances 41 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

Bianca Marais’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 41 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 9.

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · Author Insights From Chris Bohjalian, Bailey Hannah and Tarah DeWitt · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

Yeah. voice-verified

Yeah, that part was shocking. voice-verified

Again, but think about, you know, just think about the maid, the cleaning lady's feelings because she's there to clean the house and this woman won't trust her with her table. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

OK, so now jumping off from the parentheses, you do it throughout to such brilliant effect, Chris, because often in a novel, having things in brackets all the time can be distracting. voice-verified

But what I love about this is that you use it to give context of how times were back then, because something I don't know about you that I get frustrated with when I get copy edited. voice-verified

I will use a word that people would have used in the 1970s in South Africa. voice-verified

And I'll get told you can't use that word today. voice-verified

And you're going, yes, but I'm trying to build the world as it was then. voice-verified

And so you struggle to find the balance. voice-verified

So you said a lot of things. voice-verified

And then in brackets, you would explain the context saying, remember, this was back when. voice-verified

So can we speak a bit about that as well? voice-verified

Was it something that came after copy edits in which your copy editor was saying, oh, Chris, I don't know if you can say this, or is it because you've written so many books, you knew this was going to be an issue? voice-verified

Yeah, yeah. voice-verified

Just to say, I loved how you set her up straight away as somebody who was a reliable narrator with a lot of self-awareness. voice-verified

Because in this kind of story, we're coming in expecting an unreliable narrator. voice-verified

And she's just like, nope, laying all the shit bare. voice-verified

This is, I'm telling you all the bad stuff, even though I fear you don't like me. voice-verified

Absolutely love it. voice-verified

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