Claire Keegan

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550 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 21 Jun

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The Women's Podcast · The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

And there's another young woman in the house called Kate, and she has a baby.

And Kate doesn't really want the baby or mind it and she starts now dressing up in leather and going out and leaving the baby then to this new woman who has come into the house and become the mother figure over the course of the summer.

And it's just so well written and irresistible and there were things in it, you know, that I just learned.

For example, I remember reading this sentence.

Perhaps some of them actually belonged to my mother.

He's talking about possessions.

Jenny takes the attic.

She came.

I should have said she came to rent the attic that summer.

Jenny takes the attic.

I've been up there a few times looking for things in the old boxes or watching the river out of the small window.

There's nothing much in the boxes really, just cloth, scraps and dressmaking patterns.

Perhaps some of them actually belonged to my mother

And when you hit that sentence, you know the mother is not there for whatever reason.

You know, McGarren said, all good writing is suggestion and all bad writing is statement.

And I think it's just so much, it's so classy to be able to write with suggestion rather than statement.

And I recognize that he was doing that, even though I didn't call it that back then in 1994.

I was able to recognize that he was giving us information in a way that didn't make much of it.

There's an essay by Eudora Welty on Chekhov in a collection of reviews and critical pieces and personal essays called the IEYE of the story.

And in one of those she says that when it came to sex scenes, Chekhov

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