Claire Nicholls
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2,363 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2020
last heard 13 Sep
Claire Nicholls’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You really do feel kind of the floor pulled out from under you numerous times as you realise with her that, oh, we are not where we thought we were in time.
One of the ways you do this, and this is very clever, is with the chapter numbers, Sean.
What are you doing with the chapters?
It really does.
And Sarah, while the present is hazy for Grace, the past can be really clear for her.
And so as we spend more time in her mind in those chapters that bounce all over the place, we learn that she's had this extremely difficult childhood with really the mother from hell.
Yeah.
I found this book incredibly moving, particularly the scenes from Grace's childhood.
Once again, this is one of those books with a kind of alternating chapter structure where the stories in the past were the ones that I really reached to and looked forward to getting back to.
I did wonder if the character of Annie, the abusive mother, was so strong that she almost took over the book.
Yeah, but I think at the end of the day, a really important and beautiful book.
But Sarah, we've done it.
We've covered all six books on the Miles Franklin shortlist.
Now we are going to pick a favourite.
And I actually haven't done this yet.
Can I pick a runner up and a winner for me?
My runner up, I am going to say, is Little World by Josephine Rowe.
I think it spoke more to me than it did to you.
I just thought, I remember reading it and thinking, oh my goodness, this is a writer at the absolute peak of her powers who is able to do so much with so little.
But
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