Claire Nicholls
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2,363 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2020
last heard 5d ago
Claire Nicholls’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So you said this was a story that had been in you a long time because this comes from the stories of your grandparents, right?
So can you tell me what you remember about spending time with your grandparents and listening to their stories?
I love hearing about your grandma, Olive, and that beautiful story about her brother.
For those who know and love Cloud Street, Olive, I guess, is the kind of prototype for Oriole Lamb.
Your grandma, Olive, did sleep in a tent in the backyard like Oriole
I love the line about Ariel Lamb in the novel Cloud Street where it says her kindness was scalding, her protection acidic.
I mean, that kind of strict love that comes from...
So the Winton family was a hardworking family, religious family, then your mum's
family how different were they than the wintons
How did your family feel when they knew you were writing a story inspired by them?
And you were a long way from home when you wrote Cloud Street.
You were travelling with some funding and you were in Greece, you were in Paris and you were in Ireland.
I'm really interested to know what role homesickness played in the creation of Cloud Street.
You're listening to the book show where Tim Winton is with me to talk about his iconic novel, Cloud Street.
Perhaps you're going to vote for it in our top 100 books count, where this year we're asking you to vote for your favourite Australian book of all time.
Obviously, in the novel, one of the key characters in the book is the house itself, Cloud Street.
It's this living, breathing thing that fights against the pickles and the lambs for so long.
How did the travel help you realise that this house had to be alive?
And thinking of deep time, of course, a key part of Cloud Street is the river, right?
The Swan River or the Derbal Yerrigan, as it's called here in WA, the main river that runs through Perth.
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