Claire-Louise Bennett

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283 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4 Jul

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Claire-Louise Bennett & Ben Pester: Magic & Mechanics · 4 Jul 2026 podcast

It's sort of...

doing enough on the page.

It doesn't need to be.

And yeah.

No, not really.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, I was either going to read from the end or the beginning.

I might read from sort of the end.

So the end.

So this part is all she's doing basically is sort of doing a bit of tidying up in the garden.

She didn't really plan on doing that, but anyway, that's what she's doing.

And a friend of hers had come over and he went inside and took a shower.

But I think at this stage he's gone because she's on her own.

I found secateurs and shears, and since I was in the business of sprucing things up, I was thrilled with both, particularly the secateurs, because although I'd seen the shears here and there in quite hazardous places, it must be said, I hadn't known anything about the secateurs, so they were a real bonus.

There were a lot of rampant brambles and other things on the wane.

It had never before occurred to me to do anything about them.

It didn't seem to be any of my business, to tell you the truth.

Interfering is something I really loathe in almost all its applications.

So I was trimming, pruning, you might call it, and pulling up weeds and patting the soil back down.

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